How to format your references using the Biomolecular NMR Assignments citation style

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

Bowler PJ (2009) Darwin’s Originality. Science 323:223–226

A journal article with 2 authors

Mimitou EP, Symington LS (2008) Sae2, Exo1 and Sgs1 collaborate in DNA double-strand break processing. Nature 455:770–774

A journal article with 3 authors

Chang P, Jacobson MK, Mitchison TJ (2004) Poly(ADP-ribose) is required for spindle assembly and structure. Nature 432:645–649

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gu Z, Kaul M, Yan B, et al (2002) S-nitrosylation of matrix metalloproteinases: signaling pathway to neuronal cell death. Science 297:1186–1190

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kurrer K-E (2016) Geschichte der Baustatik. Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany

An edited book

Tse JKH, Tan JY (eds) (2016) Theological Reflections on the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Nyström I, Olsson P, Nysjö J, et al (2016) Virtual Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery Planning with Stereo Graphics and Haptics. In: Ritacco LE, Milano FE, Chao E (eds) Computer-Assisted Musculoskeletal Surgery: Thinking and Executing in 3D. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 29–42

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 Biomolecular NMR Assignments.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2016) How Can The UK Government Meet Its Legal Air Pollution Targets? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-can-the-uk-government-meet-its-legal-air-pollution-targets/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1999) Airline Deregulation: Changes in Airfares and Service at Four South Carolina Communities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Branch J (2017) A Case Study of Perceptions and Experiences among African-American Males Regarding College Dropout Rates in a Community College. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Ketcham IW (1942) Feel of Child’s Hand Found Way to Restored Confidence. New York Times REVIEW OF THE WEEK EDITORIALSE7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bowler 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Mimitou and Symington 2008; Bowler 2009).

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

Two authors: (Mimitou and Symington 2008)
Three or more authors: (Gu et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biomolecular NMR Assignments
Abbreviation	Biomol. NMR Assign.
ISSN (print)	1874-2718
ISSN (online)	1874-270X
Scope	Biochemistry Structural Biology