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

Corbyn Z (2015) Research: Biology’s big hit. Nature 528:S4-5

A journal article with 2 authors

Kleppner D, Jackiw R (2000) One hundred years of quantum physics. Science 289:893–898

A journal article with 3 authors

Chrysostomou A, Lucas PW, Hough JH (2007) Circular polarimetry reveals helical magnetic fields in the young stellar object HH 135-136. Nature 450:71–73

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rost S, Garnero EJ, Williams Q, Manga M (2005) Seismological constraints on a possible plume root at the core-mantle boundary. Nature 435:666–669

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lee WF (2005) Verilog Coding for Logic Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Wang R, Pan X (eds) (2016) Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (V): Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics - 2015, 1st ed. 2016. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Besold TR, Kühnberger K-U, Garcez AD, et al (2015) Anchoring Knowledge in Interaction: Towards a Harmonic Subsymbolic/Symbolic Framework and Architecture of Computational Cognition. In: Bieger J, Goertzel B, Potapov A (eds) Artificial General Intelligence: 8th International Conference, AGI 2015, AGI 2015, Berlin, Germany, July 22-25, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 35–45

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

Carpineti A (2015) Astronomers Witness Cosmic Fender Bender In The Asteroid Belt. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/asteroid-impact-snapped-astronomers/. 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 (1986) What Every Auditor Should Know About Computer Information Systems. 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

Heredia R (2017) Leadership Development in a Multigenerational Workplace: An Exploratory Study. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

(nyt) SK (2005) World Briefing | Asia: Agreement On Last Leg Of Border. New York Times A8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Corbyn 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kleppner and Jackiw 2000; Corbyn 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kleppner and Jackiw 2000)
Three or more authors: (Rost et al. 2005)

About the journal

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