How to format your references using the Biophysical Reviews citation style

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

Bohannon J (2008) The Gonzo Scientist. Scientists, we need your swords! Science 320:312

A journal article with 2 authors

Zucker AA, Light D (2009) Laptop programs for students. Science 323:82–85

A journal article with 3 authors

Jaeger TF, Pontillo D, Graff P (2012) Comment on “Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa.” Science 335:1042; author reply 1042

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Madelin G, Kline R, Walvick R, Regatte RR (2014) A method for estimating intracellular sodium concentration and extracellular volume fraction in brain in vivo using sodium magnetic resonance imaging. Sci Rep 4:4763

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson JB (2017) Bandwidth Efficient Coding. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lindhorst TK, Oscarson S (eds) (2009) Glycoscience and Microbial Adhesion. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Esposito MP, Lanteri VJ, Lovallo G (2008) Extraperitoneal Robotic Radical Prostatectomy. In: Stock JA, Esposito MP, Lanteri VJ, Albala DM (eds) Urologic Robotic Surgery. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 71–87

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 Reviews.

Blog post

Andrews R (2017) NASA Wants To Transform The Sun Into A Insanely Powerful Telescope. 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 (1991) Tax System Modernization: Further Testing of IRS’ Automated Taxpayer Service Systems Is Needed. 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

Sachdev NA (2012) An Evaluation of the District of Columbia Summer Youth Employment Program. 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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by (2006) Arts, Briefly; 2 Missing Russian Works Recovered. New York Times B8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bohannon 2008; Zucker and Light 2009).

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

Two authors: (Zucker and Light 2009)
Three or more authors: (Madelin et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biophysical Reviews
Abbreviation	Biophys. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1867-2450
ISSN (online)	1867-2469
Scope	Biophysics Molecular Biology Structural Biology