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]

M. May, Drug development: Time for teamwork, Nature 509 (2014) S4-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.W. Thompson, J.M. Wallace, Regional climate impacts of the Northern Hemisphere annular mode, Science 293 (2001) 85–89.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Lee, M. Kim, K.-H. Cho, A design principle underlying the paradoxical roles of E3 ubiquitin ligases, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5573.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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C.-Y. Cao, Y.-Y. Shen, J.-D. Wang, L. Li, G.-L. Liang, Controlled intracellular self-assembly of gadolinium nanoparticles as smart molecular MR contrast agents, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1024.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

O.K. Ersoy, Diffraction, Fourier Optics and Imaging, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

C.-F. Lee, Statistics for Business and Financial Economics, 3rd ed. 2013, Springer, New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. De Bièvre, Where’s That Quantum?, in: S.T. Ali, K.B. Sinha (Eds.), Contributions in Mathematical Physics: A Tribute to Gerard G. Emch, Hindustan Book Agency, Gurgaon, 2007: pp. 123–146.

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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T. Hale, Purps The Penguin Gets A New 3D-Printed Boot To Help With Her Injury, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/purps-the-penguin-gets-a-new-3dprinted-boot-to-help-with-her-injury/ (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, Triennial Assessment of the Tennessee Valley Authority--Fiscal Years 1977-1979, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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J.A. Brecese, Out of Our Depth: Hyper-Extensionality and the Return of Three-Dimensional Media, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2012.

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]

S. Chira, New Era After O’Reilly? Women Aren’t So Sure, New York Times (2017) B7.

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