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

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

J. Blackstock, Researchers can’t regulate climate engineering alone, Nature 486 (2012) 159.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Lipinski, A. Hopkins, Navigating chemical space for biology and medicine, Nature 432 (2004) 855–861.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Xue, B.V. Atallah, M. Scanziani, Equalizing excitation-inhibition ratios across visual cortical neurons, Nature 511 (2014) 596–600.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Zanella, G. Zanghirati, R. Cavicchioli, L. Zanni, P. Boccacci, M. Bertero, G. Vicidomini, Towards real-time image deconvolution: application to confocal and STED microscopy, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2523.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D.J. Smith, Bond Math, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

J. Xie, Z. Chen, C.C. Douglas, W. Zhang, Y. Chen, eds., High Performance Computing and Applications: Third International Conference, HPCA 2015, Shanghai, China, July 26-30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Brejová, A. Gafurov, D. Pardubská, M. Sabo, T. Vinař, Isometric Gene Tree Reconciliation Revisited, in: M. Frith, C.N. Storm Pedersen (Eds.), Algorithms in Bioinformatics: 16th International Workshop, WABI 2016, Aarhus, Denmark, August 22-24, 2016. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 40–51.

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 - Biomembranes.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Scientists Build A Supercomputer From PlayStations To Study Black Holes, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-builds-supercomputer-playstations-study-black-holes/ (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, Assistance Provided for the Construction of Higher Education Academic Facilities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.A. Cruz, Concordance between therapists’ self -reports and observers’ ratings of adherence to marital therapy, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 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]

M.R. Gordon, On the Mosul Front, a Block-by-Block Fight Against ISIS and Time, New York Times (2017) A10.

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 - Biomembranes
Abbreviation	Biochim. Biophys. Acta Biomembr.
ISSN (print)	0005-2736
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Cell Biology