How to format your references using the BBA - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BBA - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 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]

P. Smaglik, Coping with the inevitable, Nature 430 (2004) 1063.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.P. McGuinness, F. Jelezko, Quantum mechanics. Look but don’t touch the metals, Science 347 (2015) 1073–1074.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Tamsir, J.J. Tabor, C.A. Voigt, Robust multicellular computing using genetically encoded NOR gates and chemical “wires,” Nature 469 (2011) 212–215.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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H. Li, J. Wang, G. Mor, J. Sklar, A neoplastic gene fusion mimics trans-splicing of RNAs in normal human cells, Science 321 (2008) 1357–1361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety, Guidelines for Determining the Probability of Ignition of a Released Flammable Mass, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

I. Rachůnková, State-Dependent Impulses: Boundary Value Problems on Compact Interval, 1st ed. 2015, Atlantis Press, Paris, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

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F.C. Filho, P.H. da S. Brito, C.M.F. Rubira, Reasoning About Exception Flow at the Architectural Level, in: M. Butler, C.B. Jones, A. Romanovsky, E. Troubitsyna (Eds.), Rigorous Development of Complex Fault-Tolerant Systems, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 80–99.

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 - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids.

Blog post

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E. Andrew, Weather Forecasting Is About To Get Even Better, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/weather-forecasting-about-get-even-better/ (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, Financial Management Systems: Lack of Disciplined Process Puts Effective Implementation of Treasury’s Governmentwide Financial Report System at Risk, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

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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M.C. Cebada-Ricalde, Synthesis and characterization of PANI-coated VGCNFs and evaluation of its use for corrosion inhibition, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 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]

J.C. Hernández, From His Father’s Decline, de Blasio ‘Learned What Not to Do,’ New York Times (2013) A1.

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 - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids
Abbreviation	Biochim. Biophys. Acta Mol. Cell Biol. Lipids
ISSN (print)	1388-1981
Scope	Cell Biology Molecular Biology