How to format your references using the Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research. 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

[1]

Q. Schiermeier, Sea of dreams, Nature 456 (2008) 540–541.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Elbaz, C.J. Cesarsky, A fossil record of galaxy encounters, Science 300 (2003) 270–274.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.A. Wieczorek, B.P. Weiss, S.T. Stewart, An impactor origin for lunar magnetic anomalies, Science 335 (2012) 1212–1215.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. Zhuang, H. Kim, M.J.B. Pereira, H.P. Babcock, N.G. Walter, S. Chu, Correlating structural dynamics and function in single ribozyme molecules, Science 296 (2002) 1473–1476.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L.B. Castañeda, V. Arunachalam, S. Dharmaraja, Introduction to Probability and Stochastic Processes with Applications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

V. Khachidze, T. Wang, S. Siddiqui, V. Liu, S. Cappuccio, A. Lim, eds., Contemporary Research on E-business Technology and Strategy: International Conference, iCETS 2012, Tianjin, China, August 29-31, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Branton, Landscape Approaches in Historical Archaeology: The Archaeology of Places, in: D. Gaimster, T. Majewski (Eds.), International Handbook of Historical Archaeology, Springer, New York, NY, 2009: pp. 51–65.

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 Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Ancient Spider-Like Predator Resurrected, IFLScience (2014).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Digests of Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. II, No. 5, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.Z. Schneider, Mercury sources and cycling processes in the Cape Fear River estuary, North Carolina, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2009.

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

[1]

J. Weiner, A Fight Is Brewing, New York Times (2014) MM52.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research
Abbreviation	Sens. BioSensing Res.
ISSN (print)	2214-1804
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