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

Smaglik P (2004) Recruiters and industry. Building an intern programme. Nature 431:384

A journal article with 2 authors

Nutman AP, Friend CRL (2007) Comment on “A vestige of Earth’s oldest ophiolite.” Science 318:746

A journal article with 3 authors

Wojtak R, Hansen SH, Hjorth J (2011) Gravitational redshift of galaxies in clusters as predicted by general relativity. Nature 477:567–569

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pol A, Heijmans K, Harhangi HR, et al (2007) Methanotrophy below pH 1 by a new Verrucomicrobia species. Nature 450:874–878

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jain RK, Triandis HC, Weick CW (2010) Managing Research, Development, and Innovation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Liukkunen U, Chen Y (eds) (2016) Fundamental Labour Rights in China - Legal Implementation and Cultural Logic, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Peterson GD (2009) Quality Assurance in the Preparation of Technical Professionals: The ABET Perspective. In: Patil A, Gray P (eds) Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 73–83

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

Luntz S (2014) Star Without Iron Inspires Galactic Archaeology. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/star-without-iron-galactic-archaeologists-dream/. 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 (2009) Recovery Act: States’ Use of Highway Infrastructure Funds and Compliance with the Act’s Requirements. 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

Deutsch D (2010) Increased mental health services for the homeless. 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) Gimelstob Works the Crowd. New York Times D4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2004; Nutman and Friend 2007).

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

Two authors: (Nutman and Friend 2007)
Three or more authors: (Pol et al. 2007)

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