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

Wiseman H (2015) Quantum physics: Death by experiment for local realism. Nature 526:649–650

A journal article with 2 authors

Ide M, Hidaka S (2013) Tactile stimulation can suppress visual perception. Sci Rep 3:3453

A journal article with 3 authors

Siegel M, Buschman TJ, Miller EK (2015) Cortical information flow during flexible sensorimotor decisions. Science 348:1352–1355

A journal article with 5 or more authors

He C, Dong S, Santosh M, Chen X (2013) Seismic Evidence for a Geosuture between the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks, South China. Sci Rep 3:2200

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boero R (2015) Behavioral Computational Social Science. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Lucas P, Gámez JA, Salmerón A (eds) (2007) Advances in Probabilistic Graphical Models. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Falcocchio JC, Levinson HS (2015) Concentration of Travel Demand in Space and Time. In: Levinson HS (ed) Road Traffic Congestion: A Concise Guide. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 39–51

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

Hale T (2016) Students Launch Rocket With A 3D-Printed Engine. 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 (1972) Administrative Operations and Financial Transactions, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center. 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

Lieberman V (2012) One yard shy of empowerment: Cinematic portrayals of female athletes. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Grynbaum MM (2017) Inaugural All Its Own Brings Astonishment and Awe to Television. New York Times A22

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wiseman 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ide and Hidaka 2013; Wiseman 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ide and Hidaka 2013)
Three or more authors: (He et al. 2013)

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