How to format your references using the BBA - Proteins and Proteomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BBA - Proteins and Proteomics. 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	Download the output style file
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. Eisenstein, Pesticides: Seeking answers amid a toxic debate, Nature 521 (2015) S52-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Bezdek, R. Wendling, Recruiters and industry. Job creation and environmental protection, Nature 434 (2005) 678.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.E. Brown, A.H. Bouchez, C.A. Griffith, Direct detection of variable tropospheric clouds near Titan’s south pole, Nature 420 (2002) 795–797.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.M. Behrens, S.S. Ali, D.N. Dao, J. Lucero, G. Shekhtman, K.L. Quick, L.L. Dugan, Ketamine-induced loss of phenotype of fast-spiking interneurons is mediated by NADPH-oxidase, Science 318 (2007) 1645–1647.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Gee, Fraud and Fraud Detection, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

H. Chen, ed., Illustrative Handbook of General Surgery, 2nd ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C.R. Chowdary, P. Sreenivasa Kumar, Sentence Ordering for Coherent Multi-document Summary Generation, in: A. Gray, K. Jeffery, J. Shao (Eds.), Sharing Data, Information and Knowledge: 25th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 25, Cardiff, UK, July 7-10, 2008. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 40–50.

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 - Proteins and Proteomics.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Meteorite Simulations Hint At Water-Rich Mars, IFLScience (2017).

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, Vocational Education: Status in School Year 1990-91 and Early Signs of Change at Secondary Level, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.L. Shipe, Creating productive ambiguity: A visual research narrative, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 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]

B. Protess, Corzine and Regulators Settle in MF Global Case, New York Times (2017) B3.

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 - Proteins and Proteomics
Abbreviation	Biochim. Biophys. Acta Proteins Proteom.
ISSN (print)	1570-9639
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Molecular Biology Analytical Chemistry