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

Smaglik P (2002) Grappling for grants. Nature 419:3

A journal article with 2 authors

Van de Walle CG, Neugebauer J (2003) Universal alignment of hydrogen levels in semiconductors, insulators and solutions. Nature 423:626–628

A journal article with 3 authors

Gunanathan C, Ben-David Y, Milstein D (2007) Direct synthesis of amides from alcohols and amines with liberation of H2. Science 317:790–792

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Artandi SE, Chang S, Lee SL, et al (2000) Telomere dysfunction promotes non-reciprocal translocations and epithelial cancers in mice. Nature 406:641–645

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Douglas J, Noy EA (2010) Building Surveys and Reports. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Stroud I (2011) Solid Modelling and CAD Systems: How to Survive a CAD System. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Xiao S, Feng J, Xing J, et al (2016) Robust Facial Landmark Detection via Recurrent Attentive-Refinement Networks. In: Leibe B, Matas J, Sebe N, Welling M (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2016: 14th European Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 11–14, 2016, Proceedings, Part I. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 57–72

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

Andrews R (2016) At Least Three Asteroids Set To Zip By Earth This Wednesday. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/at-least-three-asteroids-set-to-zip-by-earth-this-wednesday/. 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 (2007) Joint Planning and Development Office: Progress and Key Issues in Planning the Transition to the Next Generation Air Transportation System. 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

McClenahan A (2017) The Impact of Media Promulgated Fear on the Psyche: Love Will Prevail. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Vecsey G (2010) Petke Departs, Certain He Gave All That He Could. New York Times SP9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2002; Van de Walle and Neugebauer 2003).

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

Two authors: (Van de Walle and Neugebauer 2003)
Three or more authors: (Artandi et al. 2000)

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