How to format your references using the AIMS Biophysics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIMS Biophysics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Angerer P (2004) Graduate journal: at the crossroads. Nature 427: 270.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jin Q, He SY (2001) Role of the Hrp pilus in type III protein secretion in Pseudomonas syringae. Science 294: 2556–2558.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang G, Kennedy MJ, Christie-Blick N (2003) Stable isotopic evidence for methane seeps in Neoproterozoic postglacial cap carbonates. Nature 426: 822–826.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kwon H-J, Smith WC, Scharon AJ, et al. (2002) C-O bond formation by polyketide synthases. Science 297: 1327–1330.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saleh SA, Rahman MA (2010) An Introduction to Wavelet Modulated Inverters, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kim T-H, Yang LT, Park JH, et al. (Eds.) (2009) Advances in Communication and Networking: Second International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking, FGCN 2008, Sanya, Hainan Island, China, December 13-15, 2008. Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Marsh S, Noël S, Storer T, et al. (2012) Non-standards for Trust: Foreground Trust and Second Thoughts for Mobile Security, In: Meadows C, Fernandez-Gago C (Eds.), Security and Trust Management: 7th International Workshop, STM 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 27-28, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 28–39.

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 AIMS Biophysics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) IFLScience, What Is The Dark Web?, 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/what-dark-web/.

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 (2013) Race To The Top: States Implementing Teacher and Principal Evaluation Systems despite Challenges, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Liggins J (2012) Self-concept education as a motivator of life effectiveness.

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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by (2005) Arts, Briefly; New Home for Private Art. New York Times E2.

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	AIMS Biophysics
ISSN (online)	2377-9098
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