How to format your references using the Biophysical Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biophysical Chemistry. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

J. Crampton, Paleontology. What drives biodiversity changes?, Science 334 (2011) 1073–1074.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Zhu, J. Tromp, Mapping tectonic deformation in the crust and upper mantle beneath Europe and the North Atlantic Ocean, Science 341 (2013) 871–875.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Connors, P. Wiegert, C. Veillet, Earth’s Trojan asteroid, Nature 475 (2011) 481–483.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Ozsolak, A.R. Platt, D.R. Jones, J.G. Reifenberger, L.E. Sass, P. McInerney, J.F. Thompson, J. Bowers, M. Jarosz, P.M. Milos, Direct RNA sequencing, Nature 461 (2009) 814–818.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.J.Y. Ho, M. Gibaldi, Biotechnology and Biopharmaceuticals, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2003.

An edited book

[1]

D. Kiritsis, C. Emmanouilidis, A. Koronios, J. Mathew, eds., Engineering Asset Lifecycle Management: Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2009), 28-30 September 2009, Springer, London, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Garlaschi, L. Satragno, E. Silvestri, E. La Paglia, Rachide Infiammatorio Non Infettivo, in: F. Martino (Ed.), Imaging Del Rachide: Il Vecchio e Il Nuovo, Springer, Milano, 2008: pp. 41–60.

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 Biophysical Chemistry.

Blog post

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A. Carpineti, Leaked Paper Suggests That The EmDrive Actually Works, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/leaked-paper-suggests-that-the-emdrive-actually-works/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Comments on Authority of Office of Education for Access to Accreditation-Related Records, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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W. He, A Comprehensive Analysis of Fracture Initiation and Propagation in Sandstones based on Micro-Level Observation and Digital Imaging Correlation, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017.

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

[1]

ROBERT KELLY; Robert Kelly is a poet who teaches literature, writing at Bard College, “I’D RATHER BE A GREAT BAD POET,” New York Times (1990) 77.

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	Biophysical Chemistry
Abbreviation	Biophys. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0301-4622
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Organic Chemistry