How to format your references using the Annual Review of Biophysics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of 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	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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Pillarisetty R. 2011. Academic and industry research progress in germanium nanodevices. Nature. 479(7373):324–28

A journal article with 2 authors

Rout ME, Callaway RM. 2009. Plant science. An invasive plant paradox. Science. 324(5928):734–35

A journal article with 3 authors

Javaux EJ, Marshall CP, Bekker A. 2010. Organic-walled microfossils in 3.2-billion-year-old shallow-marine siliciclastic deposits. Nature. 463(7283):934–38

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Keeling MJ, Woolhouse ME, Shaw DJ, Matthews L, Chase-Topping M, et al. 2001. Dynamics of the 2001 UK foot and mouth epidemic: stochastic dispersal in a heterogeneous landscape. Science. 294(5543):813–17

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chappell D. 2008. The JCT Intermediate Building Contracts 2005. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing

An edited book

Ganz PA, ed. 2007. Cancer Survivorship: Today and Tomorrow. New York, NY: Springer. XVI, 304 p. 80 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Erduran S, Dagher ZR. 2014. Methods and Methodological Rules. In Reconceptualizing the Nature of Science for Science Education: Scientific Knowledge, Practices and Other Family Categories, ed ZR Dagher, pp. 91–112. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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 Annual Review of Biophysics.

Blog post

Taub B. 2016. Medical Marijuana Laws Lead To Decrease In Opioid Painkiller Use. IFLScience

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. 1992. NASA Procurement: Opportunities to Improve Contract Management. T-NSIAD-92-33, 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

Witowski LL. 2008. The relationship between instructional delivery methods and student learning preferences: What contributes to student satisfaction in an online learning environment? Doctoral dissertation thesis. Capella University

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

Hodara S. 2015. Depicting Envy, ‘the Most Corrosive of the Sins.’ New York Times, Aug. 2, p. WE8

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2, 4).
This sentence cites four references (4, 6–8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Biophysics
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Biophys.
ISSN (print)	1936-122X
ISSN (online)	1936-1238
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Cell Biology Structural Biology Bioengineering