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

Bailey ME (2002) Planetary science. Where have all the comets gone? Science 296:2151–2153

A journal article with 2 authors

Freidin E, Kacelnik A (2011) Rational choice, context dependence, and the value of information in European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Science 334:1000–1002

A journal article with 3 authors

Park S-H, Zarrinpar A, Lim WA (2003) Rewiring MAP kinase pathways using alternative scaffold assembly mechanisms. Science 299:1061–1064

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tumbar T, Guasch G, Greco V, et al (2004) Defining the epithelial stem cell niche in skin. Science 303:359–363

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Miller MB (2013) Mathematics and Statistics for Financial Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kamihira M, Katakura Y, Ito A (eds) (2010) Animal Cell Technology: Basic & Applied Aspects: Proceedings of the 21st Annual and International Meeting of the Japanese Association for Animal Cell Technology (JAACT), Fukuoka, Japan, November 24-27, 2008. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Savin-Baden M, Wimpenny K (2014) What are Arts-Related Methods? In: Wimpenny K (ed) A Practical Guide to Arts-related Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp 45–62

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

Hamilton K (2016) A 700,000-Year-Old Fossil Find Shows The Hobbits’ Ancestors Were Even Smaller. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-700000-year-old-fossil-find-shows-the-hobbits-ancestors-were-even-smaller/. 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Estimated Costs, Planned Uses of Emergency Funding, and Future Implications. 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

Nadeau EM (2017) Baby Boomer Generation’s Knowledge of Alzheimer’s Disease. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Fitzgerald A (2017) Worlds in a Cell. New York Times BR13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bailey 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bailey 2002; Freidin and Kacelnik 2011).

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

Two authors: (Freidin and Kacelnik 2011)
Three or more authors: (Tumbar et al. 2004)

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