How to format your references using the European Biophysics Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Biophysics Journal. 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	Download the output style file
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

Torsvik TH (2003) Geology. The Rodinia jigsaw puzzle. Science 300:1379–1381

A journal article with 2 authors

Wickens M, Goldstrohm A (2003) Molecular biology. A place to die, a place to sleep. Science 300:753–755

A journal article with 3 authors

Caraveo-Frescas JA, Khan MA, Alshareef HN (2014) Polymer ferroelectric field-effect memory device with SnO channel layer exhibits record hole mobility. Sci Rep 4:5243

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yang Z-H, Zhuo Y, Chai Y-Q, Yuan R (2014) High throughput immunosenor based on multi-label strategy and a novel array electrode. Sci Rep 4:4747

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stamp M (2011) Information Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Pokorski M (ed) (2015) Respiratory Carcinogenesis. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Rott H, Hansson SO (2014) Safe Contraction Revisited. In: Hansson SO (ed) David Makinson on Classical Methods for Non-Classical Problems. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 35–70

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 European Biophysics Journal.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) China’s Moon Rover Is Officially Dead. In: IFLScience. 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 (2011) Nextgen Air Transportation System: Mechanisms for Collaboration and Technology Transfer Could Be Enhanced to More Fully Leverage Partner Agency and Industry Resources. 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

Robert LA (2015) The impact of community-based mentoring on African American boys using an attribution-retraining curriculum. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Kurutz S (2014) The Unsettling Thing About Ellen. New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Torsvik 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Wickens and Goldstrohm 2003; Torsvik 2003).

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

Two authors: (Wickens and Goldstrohm 2003)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Biophysics Journal
Abbreviation	Eur. Biophys. J.
ISSN (print)	0175-7571
ISSN (online)	1432-1017
Scope	Biophysics General Medicine