How to format your references using the Biophysics and Physicobiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biophysics and Physicobiology (BPPB). 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

[1]

Haroche, S. The secrets of my prizewinning research. Nature 490, 311 (2012).

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

O’Neill, J. S., Reddy, A. B. Circadian clocks in human red blood cells. Nature 469, 498–503 (2011).

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Moser, D. E., Flowers, R. M., Hart, R. J. Birth of the Kaapvaal tectosphere 3.08 billion years ago. Science 291, 465–468 (2001).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Tesmer, V. M., Kawano, T., Shankaranarayanan, A., Kozasa, T., Tesmer, J. J. G. Snapshot of activated G proteins at the membrane: the Galphaq-GRK2-Gbetagamma complex. Science 310, 1686–1690 (2005).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rosplock, K. The Complete Direct Investing Handbook. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017).

An edited book

[1]

Wüthrich, M. V. Market-Consistent Actuarial Valuation. (Springer, 2010).

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Salton, Y. Navigating the Terrain of Methodological Uncertainties to New Spaces of Research. in Navigating the Education Research Maze: Contextual, Conceptual, Methodological and Transformational Challenges and Opportunities for Researchers (eds. Rossi, D., Gacenga, F., Danaher, P. A.) pp. 67–78 (Springer International Publishing, 2016).

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 Biophysics and Physicobiology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, E. Flexible Electronic Skin Allows Humans To “Sense” Magnetic Fields. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/technology/flexible-electronic-skin-allows-humans-sense-magnetic-fields/ (2015).

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. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Broadcast Policies and Practices and the Board for International Broadcasting Oversight of Radio Programming. (1985).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wheatley, B. A. Leadership styles of healthcare executives: Comparisons of transformational, transactional, and passive-avoidant styles. (Northcentral University, 2010).

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]

Bilton, N. All Is Fair in Love and Twitter. New York Times pp. MM22 (2013).

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	Biophysics and Physicobiology
ISSN (online)	2189-4779
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