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]

R. May, Risk and uncertainty, Nature. 411 (2001) 891.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Tagle, P. Claeys, Comet or asteroid shower in the late Eocene?, Science. 305 (2004) 492.

A journal article with 3 authors

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P. Stern, P.J. Hines, J. Travis, The aging brain. Introduction, Science. 346 (2014) 566–567.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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R. Heilmann, M. Gräfe, S. Nolte, A. Szameit, Arbitrary photonic wave plate operations on chip: realizing Hadamard, Pauli-X, and rotation gates for polarisation qubits, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4118.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E.H. Ibe, Terrestrial Radiation Effects in ULSI Devices and Electronic Systems, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

T.J. Quirk, Excel 2013 for Physical Sciences Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Jalava, The Finnish Model of Higher Education Access, in: H.-D. Meyer, E.P.S. John, M. Chankseliani, L. Uribe (Eds.), Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective: Reconciling Excellence, Efficiency, and Justice, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2013: pp. 79–94.

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

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E. Andrew, 9 Of The Strangest Objects That Have Ever Been Sent Into Space, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/100-weird-and-wonderful-objects-have-been-sent-space/ (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

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Government Accountability Office, Joint Planning and Development Office: Progress and Key Issues in Planning the Transition to the Next Generation Air Transportation System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

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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K. Cummins, A Mixed Methods Study on The Leader in Me Process: How Does Fostering Student Leadership Capacity Influence Behavior, Efficacy, and Achievement?, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 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. Sisario, Prince Estate in Deal With Universal, New York Times. (2017) C2.

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

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