How to format your references using the BBA Clinical citation style

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

[1]

D. Paul, A double-edged sword, Nature 405 (2000) 515.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.A. Greenberg, K. Jin, From angiogenesis to neuropathology, Nature 438 (2005) 954–959.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P.F.M.J. Verschure, T. Voegtlin, R.J. Douglas, Environmentally mediated synergy between perception and behaviour in mobile robots, Nature 425 (2003) 620–624.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I. Volkov, J.R. Banavar, A. Maritan, S.P. Hubbell, Neutral theory: the stability of forest biodiversity, Nature 427 (2004) 696; discussion 696-7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Benslama, H. Batatia, A. Messai, Transitions from Digital Communications to Quantum Communications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

H. Xiong, W.B. Lee, eds., Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: 5th International Conference, KSEM 2011, Irvine, CA, USA, December 12-14, 2011. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Rhebergen, B. Cockburn, Space-Time Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Advection–Diffusion Equation on Moving and Deforming Meshes, in: C.A. de Moura, C.S. Kubrusly (Eds.), The Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy (CFL) Condition: 80 Years After Its Discovery, Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, 2013: pp. 45–63.

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 Clinical.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Watch This Fascinating Time-Lapse Of Hatching Bees, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-fascinating-time-lapse-hatching-bees/ (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, Guaranteed Student Loans: Legislative and Regulatory Changes Needed To Reduce Default Costs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.C. Jobanputra, Investigation of Organic Thin Films for Application in Electro-optic Devices, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2002.

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]

J. Wagner, Rookie Succeeds With Two Motivations: Playoff Race and His Student Loans, New York Times (2016) D2.

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 Clinical
Abbreviation	BBA Clin.
ISSN (print)	2214-6474
Scope	Molecular Medicine Pathology and Forensic Medicine Physiology (medical)