How to format your references using the Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

A.M. Kilpatrick, Globalization, land use, and the invasion of West Nile virus, Science 334 (2011) 323–327.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.F. Taylor, G.R. Smith, RecBCD enzyme is a DNA helicase with fast and slow motors of opposite polarity, Nature 423 (2003) 889–893.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Bradley, K.M.S. Misura, D. Baker, Toward high-resolution de novo structure prediction for small proteins, Science 309 (2005) 1868–1871.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Fan, M. Fan, B.J. Orlando, N.M. Fastman, J. Zhang, Y. Xu, M.G. Chambers, X. Xu, K. Perry, M. Liao, L. Feng, X-ray and cryo-EM structures of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter, Nature 559 (2018) 575–579.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Joseph, Doing Physics with Scientific Notebook, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

M.C. Vega, ed., Advanced Technologies for Protein Complex Production and Characterization, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Hazewinkel, N. Gubareni, V.V. Kirichenko, Right serial rings, in: M. Hazewinkel, N. Gubareni, V.V. Kirichenko (Eds.), Algebras, Rings and Modules, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007: pp. 219–253.

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 Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Man sues NASA for failing to investigate “alien life” on Mars, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/man-sues-nasa-failing-investigate-“alien-life”-mars/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Earth Observing System: Funding Requirements for NASA’s EOSDIS, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Pan, The Mental Health and Well-Being of College Students in Cambodia, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

J. Schwartz, Tax Advice From Lawmakers and Lawbreakers, New York Times (2017) BU13.

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	Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports
Abbreviation	Biochem. Biophys. Rep.
ISSN (print)	2405-5808
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