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

Shelton JD (2011) HIV/AIDS. ARVs as HIV prevention: a tough road to wide impact. Science 334:1645–1646

A journal article with 2 authors

Di Noia J, Neuberger MS (2002) Altering the pathway of immunoglobulin hypermutation by inhibiting uracil-DNA glycosylase. Nature 419:43–48

A journal article with 3 authors

Domínguez-García V, Pigolotti S, Muñoz MA (2014) Inherent directionality explains the lack of feedback loops in empirical networks. Sci Rep 4:7497

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bohn LM, Gainetdinov RR, Lin FT, et al (2000) Mu-opioid receptor desensitization by beta-arrestin-2 determines morphine tolerance but not dependence. Nature 408:720–723

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hammes GG (2005) Spectroscopy for the Biological Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Herrling PL, Matter A, Schultz RM (eds) (2005) Advances in Targeted Cancer Therapy. Birkhäuser, Basel

A chapter in an edited book

Harnesk D, Lindström J (2012) Materializing Organizational Information Security. In: Keller C, Wiberg M, Ågerfalk PJ, Eriksson Lundström JSZ (eds) Nordic Contributions in IS Research: Third Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2012, Sigtuna, Sweden, August 17–20, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 76–94

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

Andrew D (2017) How ‘Cannibalism’ By Breast Cancer Cells Promotes Dormancy: A Possible Clue Into Cancer Recurrence. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-cannibalism-by-breast-cancer-cells-promotes-dormancy-a-possible-clue-into-cancer-recurrence/. 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 (1989) Student Athletes: Information on Their Academic Performance. 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

Faye C (2017) Dust. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Grynbaum MM (2017) A New Press Secretary, for a President at War With the Press. New York Times A12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shelton 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Di Noia and Neuberger 2002; Shelton 2011).

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

Two authors: (Di Noia and Neuberger 2002)
Three or more authors: (Bohn et al. 2000)

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