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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

W. Munk, Ocean science. Ocean freshening, sea level rising, Science 300 (2003) 2041–2043.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.S. Hulleman, J.M. Harackiewicz, Promoting interest and performance in high school science classes, Science 326 (2009) 1410–1412.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.W. Hernlund, C. Thomas, P.J. Tackley, A doubling of the post-perovskite phase boundary and structure of the Earth’s lowermost mantle, Nature 434 (2005) 882–886.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Hoege, B. Pfander, G.-L. Moldovan, G. Pyrowolakis, S. Jentsch, RAD6-dependent DNA repair is linked to modification of PCNA by ubiquitin and SUMO, Nature 419 (2002) 135–141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.M. Ansons, H. Davis, Diagnosis and Management of Ocular Motility Disorders, Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

A. Chinchuluun, P.M. Pardalos, A. Migdalas, L. Pitsoulis, eds., Pareto Optimality, Game Theory And Equilibria, Springer, New York, NY, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.J. Tepper, D.E. Tepper, Diagnosis of Primary Chronic Daily Headaches, in: S.J. Tepper, D.E. Tepper (Eds.), The Cleveland Clinic Manual of Headache Therapy: Second Edition, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 49–59.

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, Another Australian Animal Slips Away To Extinction, IFLScience (2015).

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, Amtrak: Contracting Improprieties by Chief Engineer, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

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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L.K. Paaske, AVPV kisspeptin neurons mediate neuroprogesterone induction of the luteinizing hormone surge, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

G. Vecsey, Chef’s Choice Is Rooting for Italy, Family Style, New York Times (2010) B13.

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