How to format your references using the Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Nittler, L.R., 2010. Planetary science. Cometary dust in the laboratory. Science 328, 698–699.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leibfarth, F.A., Hawker, C.J., 2011. Chemistry. Mechanically throwing a reaction into reverse. Science 333, 1582–1583.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith, D.K., Cann, J.R., Escartín, J., 2006. Widespread active detachment faulting and core complex formation near 13 degrees N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Nature 442, 440–443.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jing, H., Zhang, G., Meng, L., Meng, Q., Mo, H., Tai, Y., 2014. Gradually elevated expression of Gankyrin during human hepatocarcinogenesis and its clinicopathological significance. Sci. Rep. 4, 5503.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Williams, T., Turton, V., 2014. Trading Economics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

MacFarlane, D. (Ed.), 2010. Skin Cancer Management: A Practical Approach. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Franklin, M.E., Tolin, D.F., 2007. What Should be Done?, in: Tolin, D.F. (Ed.), Treating Trichotillomania: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Hairpulling and Related Problems. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 51–60.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Andrei Linde Receives News About Gravitational Wave Breakthrough [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/andrei-linde-receives-news-about-gravitational-wave-breakthrough/ (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 1998. Information Technology: Assessment of the Commerce Department’s Report on Worker Demand and Supply (No. T-HEHS-98-144). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Sutton, D.S., 2015. Structural and geophysical interpretation of Roatán Island, Honduras, Western Caribbean (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. 2017 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour. New York Times C10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Nittler, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Leibfarth and Hawker, 2011; Nittler, 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Leibfarth and Hawker, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Jing et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X
ISSN (print)	2590-1370
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