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]

C.O. Kappe, Journal club. A chemist muses on the technique of microwaving flowing chemical reactions, Nature 464 (2010) 817.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Della Valle, R. Gilmozzi, Rebirth of novae as distance indicators due to efficient, large telescopes, Science 296 (2002) 1275.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Zhou, H. Guan, B. Chi, Record of winter monsoon strength, Nature 450 (2007) E10-1; discussion E11.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y.-L. Zhang, H. Wang, L. Jing, L.-Z. Mu, H. Fan, Fitting magnetic field gradient with Heisenberg-scaling accuracy, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7390.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Olsson, Understanding Changing Telecommunications, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

T. Cai, T.E. Bjerklund Johansen, eds., Prostatitis and Its Management: Concepts and Recommendations for Clinical Practice, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B.M. Kelm, S. Mittal, Y. Zheng, A. Tsymbal, D. Bernhardt, F. Vega-Higuera, S.K. Zhou, P. Meer, D. Comaniciu, Detection, Grading and Classification of Coronary Stenoses in Computed Tomography Angiography, in: G. Fichtinger, A. Martel, T. Peters (Eds.), Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2011: 14th International Conference, Toronto, Canada, September 18-22, 2011, Proceedings, Part III, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 25–32.

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]

S. Luntz, Graphic Shows The Size Of Rosetta’s Comet, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/graphic-shows-size-rosettas-comet/ (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, Sanitary Conditions in Selected Food Industries, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Hussmann, Profiling Drilling Fluid Invasion in Sandstones Using Water Based Muds: Implications for Bridging and Wellbore Strengthening Effects, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2014.

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, Jones Inlet to Be Dredged Despite Money Dispute, New York Times (2007) LI2.

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)