How to format your references using the Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes. 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

Retallack GJ (2001) A 300-million-year record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil plant cuticles. Nature 411:287–290

A journal article with 2 authors

Marmottant P, Hilgenfeldt S (2003) Controlled vesicle deformation and lysis by single oscillating bubbles. Nature 423:153–156

A journal article with 3 authors

Kuhn G, Hijri M, Sanders IR (2001) Evidence for the evolution of multiple genomes in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Nature 414:745–748

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gessler D, Dye C, Farmer P, et al (2006) Public health. A National Tuberculosis Archive. Science 311:1245–1246

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Greenspan D (2008) Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Yilbas BS (2014) Laser Pulse Heating of Surfaces and Thermal Stress Analysis. Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Costa FO, Antunes PM (2012) The Contribution of the Barcode of Life Initiative to the Discovery and Monitoring of Biodiversity. In: Mendonca A, Cunha A, Chakrabarti R (eds) Natural Resources, Sustainability and Humanity: A Comprehensive View. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 37–68

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 Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) New Method Could Help Estimate Time of Death for a Ten-Day-Old Corpse. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-method-could-help-estimate-time-death-ten-day-old-corpse/. 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 (1990) Preserving the Interstate 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

Stewart DA (2013) Principals’ post-observation feedback and its influence on teacher professional growth at two Southern California Catholic high schools. 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

James Woolsey R, Fox BJ (2017) To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source. New York Times A19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Retallack 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Retallack 2001; Marmottant and Hilgenfeldt 2003).

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

Two authors: (Marmottant and Hilgenfeldt 2003)
Three or more authors: (Gessler et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes
Abbreviation	J. Bioenerg. Biomembr.
ISSN (print)	0145-479X
ISSN (online)	1573-6881
Scope	Cell Biology Physiology