How to format your references using the Biophysics Reports citation style

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

Webb P (2010) Science education and literacy: imperatives for the developed and developing world. Science 328:448–450

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith DJ, Whitehouse I (2012) Intrinsic coupling of lagging-strand synthesis to chromatin assembly. Nature 483:434–438

A journal article with 3 authors

Schaller MF, Wright JD, Kent DV (2011) Atmospheric PCO₂ perturbations associated with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. Science 331:1404–1409

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Goll MG, Kirpekar F, Maggert KA, et al (2006) Methylation of tRNAAsp by the DNA methyltransferase homolog Dnmt2. Science 311:395–398

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Safonov VO (2016) Trustworthy Cloud Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Denaro L, D’Avella D, Denaro V (eds) (2010) Pitfalls in Cervical Spine Surgery: Avoidance and Management of Complications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Waldron S (2013) Group Frames. In: Casazza PG, Kutyniok G (eds) Finite Frames: Theory and Applications. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, pp 171–191

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 Reports.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Blame It On Mum And Dad: How Genes Influence What We Eat. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/blame-it-mum-and-dad-how-genes-influence-what-we-eat/. 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 (1982) The Need for a Better Trained EDP Auditor. 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

Legaspi J (2010) Accelerated supported employment program: A grant proposal. 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

Yablonsky L (2012) Style Provocateurs. New York Times ST3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Webb 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Webb 2010; Smith and Whitehouse 2012).

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

Two authors: (Smith and Whitehouse 2012)
Three or more authors: (Goll et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biophysics Reports
Abbreviation	Biophys. Rep.
ISSN (print)	2364-3439
ISSN (online)	2364-3420
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