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

Bianco P (2013) Don’t market stem-cell products ahead of proof. Nature 499:255

A journal article with 2 authors

Roe GH, Baker MB (2007) Why is climate sensitivity so unpredictable? Science 318:629–632

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim H, Chen J, Yu X (2007) Ubiquitin-binding protein RAP80 mediates BRCA1-dependent DNA damage response. Science 316:1202–1205

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Field J, Shreeves G, Sumner S, Casiraghi M (2000) Insurance-based advantage to helpers in a tropical hover wasp. Nature 404:869–871

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghiani G, Laporte G, Musmanno R (2013) Introduction to Logistics Systems Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Doerfler W, Böhm P (eds) (2016) Epigenetics - A Different Way of Looking at Genetics, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

McIver A, Meinicke L, Morgan C (2009) Security, Probability and Nearly Fair Coins in the Cryptographers’ Café. In: Cavalcanti A, Dams DR (eds) FM 2009: Formal Methods: Second World Congress, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 2-6, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 41–71

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 (2015) Meet the New Blue and Purple Crayfish from Indonesia. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-new-blue-and-purple-crayfish-indonesia/. 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 (1991) Immigrant Education: Information on the Emergency Immigrant Education Act Program. 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

Lee JY (2008) Socio-Spatial Exclusion Based on Human Activities and Social Networks in Space-Time: A Case Study of Koreans in Columbus, Ohio. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

McKINLEY JC Jr (2017) Second Jury Provides Closure to First Jury. New York Times A25

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bianco 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Roe and Baker 2007; Bianco 2013).

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

Two authors: (Roe and Baker 2007)
Three or more authors: (Field et al. 2000)

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