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

Smaglik P (2000) Shareholder sues Celera over loss. Nature 405:3

A journal article with 2 authors

Lum L, Clevers H (2012) Cell biology. The unusual case of Porcupine. Science 337:922–923

A journal article with 3 authors

Hunt GR, Corballis MC, Gray RD (2001) Animal behaviour: Laterality in tool manufacture by crows. Nature 414:707

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ackert RP Jr, Becker RA, Singer BS, et al (2008) Patagonian glacier response during the late glacial-Holocene transition. Science 321:392–395

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kamso N, Ng TM (2013) Investing in Islamic Funds. John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Barnaghi P, Moessner K, Presser M, Meissner S (eds) (2009) Smart Sensing and Context: 4th European Conference, EuroSSC 2009, Guildford, UK, September 16-18, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Byun JS (jason), Kwak Y (2009) The Scanner Data Shows Size Elasticity at Package Food Category? In: Ślęzak D, Kim T-H, Ma J, et al. (eds) U- and E-Service, Science and Technology: International Conference, UNESST 2009, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2009, Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 19–24

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

Carpineti A (2016) We Are A Step Closer To Understanding How Superconductivity Works. In: IFLScience. 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 (1996) Railroad Safety: DOT Faces Challenges in Improving Grade Crossing Safety, Track Inspection Standards, and Passenger Car Safety. 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

Monosky KA (2010) Perceived effectiveness and utility of various EMS credentials. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Kishkovsky S, Sulcas R (2015) Acid Attack Victim to Leave the Bolshoi. New York Times C4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2000; Lum and Clevers 2012).

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

Two authors: (Lum and Clevers 2012)
Three or more authors: (Ackert et al. 2008)

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

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