How to format your references using the BBA - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms citation style

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

C. Smith, Structural biology. Two geometric solutions to a transporting problem, Science 311 (2006) 182–183.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Douglas, M. Young, Viruses: making friends with old foes, Science 312 (2006) 873–875.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. Hu, W. Luo, M. Hong, Mechanisms of proton conduction and gating in influenza M2 proton channels from solid-state NMR, Science 330 (2010) 505–508.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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S. Hayashi, K. Kato, K. Norimatsu, M. Hada, Y. Kayanuma, K.G. Nakamura, Measuring quantum coherence in bulk solids using dual phase-locked optical pulses, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4456.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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R.J. Lewis Sr., Hazardous Chemicals Desk Reference, Sixth Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

V.F. Krapivin, Globalization and Sustainable Development: Environmental Agendas, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

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J. Antoñanzas-Torres, F. Antoñanzas-Torres, E. Sodupe-Ortega, F.J. Martínez-de-Pisón, Optimization of Solar Integration in Combined Cycle Gas Turbines (ISCC), in: Á. Herrero, B. Baruque, F. Klett, A. Abraham, V. Snášel, A.C.P.L.F. de Carvalho, P.G. Bringas, I. Zelinka, H. Quintián, E. Corchado (Eds.), International Joint Conference SOCO’13-CISIS’13-ICEUTE’13: Salamanca, Spain, September 11th-13th, 2013 Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 31–40.

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 - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms.

Blog post

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K. Hamilton, The Evidence That Shows Dinosaurs Were In Decline For 40 Million Years Before The Asteroid Hit, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-evidence-that-shows-dinosaurs-were-in-decline-for-40-million-years-before-the-asteroid-hit/ (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

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Government Accountability Office, Head Start: Comprehensive Approach to Identifying and Addressing Risks Could Help Prevent Grantee Financial Management Weakenesses, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Spezia, Numerical Modeling of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfers in Porous Media, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2015.

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]

G.G. Gustines, Eye-Popping Storytelling (Nostalgic To Naughty), New York Times (2013) C33.

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 - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms
Abbreviation	Biochim. Biophys. Acta Gene Regul. Mech.
ISSN (print)	1874-9399
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Genetics Molecular Biology Structural Biology