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

Huarte M. Journal club. A biologist looks at new functions for non-coding RNAs. Nature 2009; 459:487.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thyer R, Ellefson J. Synthetic biology: New letters for life’s alphabet. Nature 2014; 509:291–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Euston DR, Tatsuno M, McNaughton BL. Fast-forward playback of recent memory sequences in prefrontal cortex during sleep. Science 2007; 318:1147–50.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Byrne ME, Barley R, Curtis M, Arroyo JM, Dunham M, Hudson A, Martienssen RA. Asymmetric leaves1 mediates leaf patterning and stem cell function in Arabidopsis. Nature 2000; 408:967–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

De Vos A. Reversible Computing. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

Cebeci T. Computational Fluid Dynamics for Engineers: From Panel to Navier-Stokes Methods with Computer Programs. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Srinivasan V. India: CSR and Ethics in MSMEs in India. In: Spence L, Painter-Morland M, editors. Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: A Global Commentary. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011. page 55–63.

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. Strange Hallucinations Seem To Be Spreading In A US Hospital [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/strange-hallucinations-seem-to-be-spreading-in-a-us-hospital/

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. Information Technology: Opportunities for Improving Acquisitions and Operations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kotamreddy A. Design and Simulation of 16 Psk Super Regenerative Receiver. 2017;

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

Corkery M. Walmart Sticks With Arkansas Headquarters as Amazon Plays the Field. New York Times2017; :B4.

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