How to format your references using the Bioarchitecture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bioarchitecture. 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

Goldston D. Political climate. Nature 2007; 450:333.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lim C, Allada R. ATAXIN-2 activates PERIOD translation to sustain circadian rhythms in Drosophila. Science 2013; 340:875–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li Y, Moon K-S, Wong CP. Materials science. Electronics without lead. Science 2005; 308:1419–20.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Buhl J, Sumpter DJT, Couzin ID, Hale JJ, Despland E, Miller ER, Simpson SJ. From disorder to order in marching locusts. Science 2006; 312:1402–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rombach G. Spannbetonbau. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2010.

An edited book

Tan T, Ruan Q, Wang S, Ma H, Di K, editors. Advances in Image and Graphics Technologies: 10th Chinese Conference, IGTA 2015, Beijing, China, June 19-20, 2015, Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Jurng J, Chin S, Park E. A Study on TiO2 Nanoparticle-Supported Mn2O3 Catalyst for Indoor Air Pollutants - Ozone and VOC Decomposition Reaction. In: Han M-W, Lee J, editors. EKC 2010: Proceedings of the EU-Korea Conference on Science and Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. page 29–34.

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 Bioarchitecture.

Blog post

Hale T. Geminid Meteor Shower Will Peak Tonight, But The Supermoon Might Outshine It [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/geminid-meteor-shower-will-peak-tonight-but-the-supermoon-might-outshine-it/

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

Government Accountability Office. Landsat Policy Issues Still Unresolved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rieger K. Phenomenological Exploration of the Characteristics of Successful Women Entrepreneurs. 2012;

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

CHRISTOPHER KELLY; Christopher Kelly is a fellow in ancient history at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Paganism Was Alive and Well. New York Times1990; :743.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Bioarchitecture
Abbreviation	Bioarchitecture
ISSN (print)	1949-0992
ISSN (online)	1949-100X
Scope	Cell Biology Structural Biology General Medicine