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

O’Reilly RC (2006) Biologically based computational models of high-level cognition. Science 314:91–94

A journal article with 2 authors

Yao T, Cohen RE (2002) A cryptic protease couples deubiquitination and degradation by the proteasome. Nature 419:403–407

A journal article with 3 authors

LaDeau SL, Kilpatrick AM, Marra PP (2007) West Nile virus emergence and large-scale declines of North American bird populations. Nature 447:710–713

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Watanabe R, Soga N, Yamanaka T, Noji H (2014) High-throughput formation of lipid bilayer membrane arrays with an asymmetric lipid composition. Sci Rep 4:7076

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Habib MAR (2010) Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Buonocore G, Bracci R, Weindling M (eds) (2012) Neonatology: A Practical Approach to Neonatal Diseases. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

Daněk M, Kafka L, Kohout L, et al (2013) UTLEON3 Programming by Example. In: Kafka L, Kohout L, Sýkora J, Bartosinski R (eds) UTLEON3: Exploring Fine-Grain Multi-Threading in FPGAs. Springer, New York, NY, pp 67–77

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

Andrew E (2015) Scientists Use Physics To Read Scrolls From Herculaneum – But Why Do We Care? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-use-physics-read-scrolls-herculaneum-why-do-we-care/. 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 (1990) Higher Education: Gaps in Parents’ and Students’ Knowledge of School Costs and Federal Aid. 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

Fearrington ND (2008) The relationship between fathers’ pre -natal involvement with the mother and post -natal involvement with the child(ren). Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Barron J (2017) The Coda to a Remarkable Career: Barbara Cook Has Retired. New York Times A19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (O’Reilly 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Yao and Cohen 2002; O’Reilly 2006).

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

Two authors: (Yao and Cohen 2002)
Three or more authors: (Watanabe et al. 2014)

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