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

Weissert H. Deciphering methane’s fingerprint. Nature 2000; 406:356–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Longhi S, Della Valle G. Floquet bound states in the continuum. Sci Rep 2013; 3:2219.

A journal article with 3 authors

Janjić V, Sharan R, Pržulj N. Modelling the yeast interactome. Sci Rep 2014; 4:4273.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Brun VH, Otnass MK, Molden S, Steffenach H-A, Witter MP, Moser M-B, Moser EI. Place cells and place recognition maintained by direct entorhinal-hippocampal circuitry. Science 2002; 296:2243–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minelli M, Chambers M, Dhiraj A. Big Data, Big Analytics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Weissenberger S. Adaptation to Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: The Case Study of Coastal Communities in New Brunswick, Canada. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Mamalis AG. Advanced Manufacturing of Advanced Materials. In: Lee J, Novikov N, Turkevich V, editors. Innovative Superhard Materials and Sustainable Coatings for Advanced Manufacturing: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Innovative Superhard Materials and Sustainable Coatings Kiev, Ukraine 12–15 May 2004. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005. page 63–80.

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

Hamilton K. Natural Selection May Be The Answer To The Cancer Riddle, But Can We Beat Evolution? [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/natural-selection-may-be-the-answer-to-the-cancer-riddle-but-can-we-beat-evolution/

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. Review of ROTC Consortium Agreement. 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

Tate KJ. Utilizing Canines in a Public School Setting: A Case Study. 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

Feeney K. Growing More Diverse. New York Times2008; :NJ11.

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