How to format your references using the BBA - Bioenergetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BBA - Bioenergetics. 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 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

[1]

B.R. Edlin, Perspective: test and treat this silent killer, Nature 474 (2011) S18-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Peterca, V. Percec, Materials science. Recasting metal alloy phases with block copolymers, Science 330 (2010) 333–334.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Politi, J.C.F. Matthews, J.L. O’Brien, Shor’s quantum factoring algorithm on a photonic chip, Science 325 (2009) 1221.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Courcelle, J.R. Donaldson, K.-H. Chow, C.T. Courcelle, DNA damage-induced replication fork regression and processing in Escherichia coli, Science 299 (2003) 1064–1067.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N.H. Chan, H.Y. Wong, Handbook of Financial Risk Management, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

R. Bloem, E. Arbel, eds., Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing: 12th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2016, Haifa, Israel, November 14-17, 2016, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R.J. Stevens, Cooperative Learning and Literacy Instruction in Middle Level Education, in: R.M. Gillies, A.F. Ashman, J. Terwel (Eds.), The Teacher’s Role in Implementing Cooperative Learning in the Classroom, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2008: pp. 92–109.

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 BBA - Bioenergetics.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Solar Prominence Looks Just Like The Eiffel Tower, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-prominence-looks-eiffel-tower/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Bureau of Indian Education Schools: Improving Interior’s Assistance Would Help Some Tribal Groups Implement Academic Accountability Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P. Schaper, Meaning making: Learning in whistle blowing, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2010.

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]

M. Kelly, Clinton Said to Consider Sending Troops to Bosnia, New York Times (1993) A6.

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	BBA - Bioenergetics
Abbreviation	Biochim. Biophys. Acta Bioenerg.
ISSN (print)	0005-2728
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Cell Biology