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]

H. Nicholls, Conservation biology: Wild at heart, Nature 528 (2015) 474–475.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.A. Zachariah, J.G. Cyster, Neural crest-derived pericytes promote egress of mature thymocytes at the corticomedullary junction, Science 328 (2010) 1129–1135.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Kimchi, J. Xu, C. Dulac, A functional circuit underlying male sexual behaviour in the female mouse brain, Nature 448 (2007) 1009–1014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.E.F. Brollo, R. López-Ruiz, D. Muraca, S.J.A. Figueroa, K.R. Pirota, M. Knobel, Compact Ag@Fe3O4 core-shell nanoparticles by means of single-step thermal decomposition reaction, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6839.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N.G. Markley, Principles of Differential Equations, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

D. Barceló, P.-D. Hansen, eds., Biosensors for Environmental Monitoring of Aquatic Systems: Bioanalytical and Chemical Methods for Endocrine Disruptors, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

O. Hartig, J. Pérez, LDQL: A Query Language for the Web of Linked Data, in: M. Arenas, O. Corcho, E. Simperl, M. Strohmaier, M. d’Aquin, K. Srinivas, P. Groth, M. Dumontier, J. Heflin, K. Thirunarayan, S. Staab (Eds.), The Semantic Web - ISWC 2015: 14th International Semantic Web Conference, Bethlehem, PA, USA, October 11-15, 2015, Proceedings, Part I, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 73–91.

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

[1]

T. Hale, North Korea Announce Plans For Moon Missions And To “Conquer Space,” IFLScience (2016).

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, Review of Certain Problems in the Cosmetology Accrediting Commission, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.E. Crosby, A phenomenological heuristic study of psychosocial factors that contribute to African American females’ HIV seroconversion, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2012.

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]

R. Fausset, After Proudly Defying Washington, Hard-Hit Texas Needs Its Aid, New York Times (2017) A1.

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