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

Buetow KH (2005) Cyberinfrastructure: empowering a “third way” in biomedical research. Science 308:821–824

A journal article with 2 authors

Irwing P, Lynn R (2006) Intelligence: is there a sex difference in IQ scores? Nature 442:E1; discussion E1-2

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu S-M, Chen W, Wang J (2014) Distinguishing between cancer cell differentiation and resistance induced by all-trans retinoic acid using transcriptional profiles and functional pathway analysis. Sci Rep 4:5577

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liang L, Juarez S, Nga TVT, et al (2013) Immune profiling with a Salmonella Typhi antigen microarray identifies new diagnostic biomarkers of human typhoid. Sci Rep 3:1043

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Takezawa K (2005) Introduction to Nonparametric Regression: Takezawa/Introduction. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Terry JP (2013) Reef-Platform Coral Boulders: Evidence for High-Energy Marine Inundation Events on Tropical Coastlines. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Alvermann DE, Mallozzi CA (2009) Moving Beyond the Gold Standard: Epistemological and Ontological Considerations of Research in Science Literacy. In: Shelley MC, Yore LD, Hand B (eds) Quality Research in Literacy and Science Education: International Perspectives and Gold Standards. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 63–81

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

Davis J (2016) Why You Should Stop Hugging Your Dog If You Really Love Them. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/most-dogs-dont-hugging/. 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 (1980) Continued Use of Costly, Outmoded Computers in Federal Agencies Can Be Avoided. 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

Mowery K (2015) Beneath the Attack Surface. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Walsh MW (2015) Bad Math and a Coming Public Pension Crisis. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buetow 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Buetow 2005; Irwing and Lynn 2006).

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

Two authors: (Irwing and Lynn 2006)
Three or more authors: (Liang et al. 2013)

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