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]

G.N. Gill, A pit stop at the ER, Science 295 (2002) 1654–1655.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.A. McMurray, D.E. Gottschling, An age-induced switch to a hyper-recombinational state, Science 301 (2003) 1908–1911.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Schefuss, S. Schouten, R.R. Schneider, Climatic controls on central African hydrology during the past 20,000 years, Nature 437 (2005) 1003–1006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Kawate, J.C. Michel, W.T. Birdsong, E. Gouaux, Crystal structure of the ATP-gated P2X(4) ion channel in the closed state, Nature 460 (2009) 592–598.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Rounds, R. Segner, Construction Supervision, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

L. Silva, E. Figueiredo, eds., Shaping Rural Areas in Europe: Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Berend, L. Sapir, Indirect Maximum Likelihood Estimation, in: B. Goldengorin (Ed.), Optimization and Its Applications in Control and Data Sciences: In Honor of Boris T. Polyak’s 80th Birthday, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 119–138.

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, Iris Scanners Can Now Identify Us From 40 Feet Away, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/iris-scanners-can-now-identify-us-40-feet-away/ (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, Mexican Trucking Wages, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.P. Mustico, Perception and preference comparison of managers’ behaviors on sales and non -sales employees: A case study, Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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]

L. Saslow, School Chief, Never Accused, Quits After Scandal, New York Times (2006) 14LI2.

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