How to format your references using the BBA - Molecular Basis of Disease citation style

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

I.M. Verma, Medicine. Gene therapy that works, Science 341 (2013) 853–855.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E.P. Balskus, E.N. Jacobsen, Asymmetric catalysis of the transannular Diels-Alder reaction, Science 317 (2007) 1736–1740.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

X. Xu, Z. Zhou, R.O. Prum, Branched integumental structures in Sinornithosaurus and the origin of feathers, Nature 410 (2001) 200–204.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Aso, D. Kan, Y. Shimakawa, H. Kurata, Atomic level observation of octahedral distortions at the perovskite oxide heterointerface, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2214.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Li, J. Lin, Microwave Noncontact Motion Sensing and Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A.S. d’Avila Garcez, Neural-Symbolic Cognitive Reasoning, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E.V. Foruria, The Participation of Autonomous Communities in the Central Bodies of State, in: A. López-Basaguren, L. Escajedo San Epifanio (Eds.), The Ways of Federalism in Western Countries and the Horizons of Territorial Autonomy in Spain: Volume 2, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 63–81.

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 Basis of Disease.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Google Releases Stunning Underwater Street View For World Oceans Day, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/google-releases-stunning-underwater-street-view-world-oceans-day/ (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, Environmental Protection Agency: Control of Air Pollution From New Motor Vehicles--Tier 2 Motor Vehicle Emissions Standards and Gasoline Sulfur Control Requirements, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

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.N. Garfield-Kabbara, Through the Portal of Shame: A Path Toward Self-Love for Fatherless Daughters Living in Patriarchy, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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. Greenhouse, On Court That Defied Labeling, Kennedy Made the Boldest Mark, New York Times (2008) 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 Basis of Disease
Abbreviation	Biochim. Biophys. Acta Mol. Basis Dis.
ISSN (print)	0925-4439
Scope	Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine