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

Charo, R.A. SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT. Yellow Lights for Emerging Technologies. Science 2015, 349, 384–385.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trampert, J.; van Heijst, H.J. Global Azimuthal Anisotropy in the Transition Zone. Science 2002, 296, 1297–1299.

A journal article with 3 authors

Panday, V.; Tiest, W.M.B.; Kappers, A.M.L. Integration of Length and Curvature in Haptic Perception. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 3856.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ng, K.L.; Li, J.-D.; Cheng, M.Y.; Leslie, F.M.; Lee, A.G.; Zhou, Q.-Y. Dependence of Olfactory Bulb Neurogenesis on Prokineticin 2 Signaling. Science 2005, 308, 1923–1927.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Connor, K.; Aardema, F. Clinician’s Handbook for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2011; ISBN 9781119960027.

An edited book

Al-Haj Baddar, S.W. Designing Sorting Networks: A New Paradigm; Batcher, K.E., Ed.; Springer: New York, NY, 2011; ISBN 9781461418504.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhu, Y.; Lan, H.; Ness, D.A.; Xing, K.; Schneider, K.; Lee, S.-H.; Ge, J. Carbon Trade, Forestry Land Rights, and Farmers’ Livelihood in Rural Communities in China. In Transforming Rural Communities in China and Beyond: Community Entrepreneurship and Enterprises, Infrastructure Development and Investment Modes; Lan, H., Ness, D.A., Xing, K., Schneider, K., Lee, S.-H., Ge, J., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 61–91 ISBN 9783319113180.

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

O`Callaghan, J. New Super-Hubble Telescope Could Find out If We Are Alone in the Universe (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 Women in STEM Research: Federal Agencies Differ in the Data They Collect on Grant Applicants; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2015;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ball-Miles, N.M. The Relationship between Witnessing Verbal Marital Conflict as a Child and the Behavioral Anger Responses in Adulthood. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University: Minneapolis, MN, 2014.

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

Pilon, M. After 2 Helmets Are Decertified, Lacrosse Faces Safety Concerns. New York Times 2014, D1.

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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