How to format your references using the Biomolecules citation style

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

Goldston, D. A Word in the Right Place. Nature 2007, 445, 698.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lyon, B.E.; Eadie, J.M. An Obligate Brood Parasite Trapped in the Intraspecific Arms Race of Its Hosts. Nature 2004, 432, 390–393.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fraser, C.M.; Eisen, J.A.; Salzberg, S.L. Microbial Genome Sequencing. Nature 2000, 406, 799–803.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cunningham, J.T.; Rodgers, J.T.; Arlow, D.H.; Vazquez, F.; Mootha, V.K.; Puigserver, P. MTOR Controls Mitochondrial Oxidative Function through a YY1-PGC-1alpha Transcriptional Complex. Nature 2007, 450, 736–740.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Turner, J.R.; Durham, T.A. Integrated Cardiac Safety: Assessment Methodologies for Noncardiac Drugs in Discovery, Development, and Postmarketing Surveillance; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2008; ISBN 9780470411292.

An edited book

Hutson, J.M. The Surgical Examination of Children; Beasley, S.W., Ed.; 2nd ed. 2013.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; ISBN 9783642298134.

A chapter in an edited book

Krasniansky, G.L. Coal in the Economy of Russia. In XVIII International Coal Preparation Congress: 28 June—01 July 2016 Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Litvinenko, V., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 35–40 ISBN 9783319409429.

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 Biomolecules.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Trick Or Treat? The Psychology Of Fright And Halloween Horrors Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/trick-or-treat-psychology-fright-and-halloween-horrors/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Propane and Heating Oil: Federal Oversight of the Propane Education and Research Council and National Oilheat Research Alliance Should Be Strengthened; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2010;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hofmann, T.B. Adductor and Abductor Spasmodic Dysphonia: A Comparison of Quality of Life Issues for Those Receiving Botox Treatment. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University: Scottsdale, AZ, 2008.

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

Kelly, S. Still Huffing, Still Puffing. New York Times 2001, 720.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Biomolecules
Abbreviation	Biomolecules
ISSN (online)	2218-273X
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