How to format your references using the Biological Rhythm Research citation style

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

Konner M. 2004. The ties that bind. Nature. 429(6993):705.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nohturfft A, Losick R. 2002. Cell biology. Fats, flies, and palmitate. Science. 296(5569):857–858.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hauke P, Tagliacozzo L, Lewenstein M. 2012. Physics. Speeding up quantum field theories. Science. 336(6085):1122–1123.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Parrish J, Li L, Klotz K, Ledwich D, Wang X, Xue D. 2001. Mitochondrial endonuclease G is important for apoptosis in C. elegans. Nature. 412(6842):90–94.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reeve WD. 2006. DC Power System Design for Telecommunications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Franch X, Soffer P, editors. 2013. Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops: CAiSE 2013 International Workshops, Valencia, Spain, June 17-21, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Uzun E, Lorenzi D, Atluri V, Vaidya J, Sural S. 2015. Migrating from DAC to RBAC. In: Samarati P, editor. Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXIX: 29th Annual IFIP WG 113 Working Conference, DBSec 2015, Fairfax, VA, USA, July 13-15, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 69–84.

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 Biological Rhythm Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. Russian Scientists Explore Mysterious Siberian Hole. IFLScience.

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. 2006. Child Care and Early Childhood Education: More Information Sharing and Program Review by HHS Could Enhance Access for Families with Limited English Proficiency (Korean Version). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Backfish M. 2013. Electron Cloud in Steel Beam Pipe vs Titanium Nitride Coated and Amorphous Carbon Coated Beam Pipes in Fermilab’s Main Injector [Doctoral dissertation]. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University.

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

Paulson M. 2017. Hello? Dolly? Bette Midler Might Not Sing at Tonys. New York Times.:C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Konner 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Nohturfft and Losick 2002; Konner 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Nohturfft and Losick 2002)
Three or more authors: (Parrish et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biological Rhythm Research
Abbreviation	Biol. Rhythm Res.
ISSN (print)	0929-1016
ISSN (online)	1744-4179
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Physiology Physiology (medical)