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

Crutzen PJ (2004) A late change to the programme. Nature 429:349

A journal article with 2 authors

England PC, Katz RF (2010) Global systematics of arc volcano position. Nature 468:E6-7; discussion E7-8

A journal article with 3 authors

Bomfleur B, McLoughlin S, Vajda V (2014) Fossilized nuclei and chromosomes reveal 180 million years of genomic stasis in royal ferns. Science 343:1376–1377

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wegner KM, Kalbe M, Kurtz J, et al (2003) Parasite selection for immunogenetic optimality. Science 301:1343

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hornberger G, Wiberg P (2005) Numerical Methods in the Hydrological Sciences. American Geophysical Union, Washington D. C.

An edited book

Ravi V, Panigrahi BK, Das S, Suganthan PN (eds) (2015) Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Fuzzy and Neuro Computing (FANCCO - 2015), 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Awodey S (2011) From Sets to Types, to Categories, to Sets. In: Sommaruga G (ed) Foundational Theories of Classical and Constructive Mathematics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 113–125

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

Fang J (2014) Smoking While Pregnant Could Alter Baby’s DNA. 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 (1995) FAA Budget: Issues Related to the Fiscal Year 1996 Request. 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

Bozorgchami B (2017) Time and Bandwidth Efficiency in Transmission of Telemedicine and In-Hospital Patient Data. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Hollander S (2000) Lucky Loser in Qualifying Becomes Tired Winner of the Bronx Classic. New York Times D10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crutzen 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Crutzen 2004; England and Katz 2010).

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

Two authors: (England and Katz 2010)
Three or more authors: (Wegner et al. 2003)

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