How to format your references using the Journal of Biological Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Biological Physics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Onozuka, D.: Effect of non-stationary climate on infectious gastroenteritis transmission in Japan. Sci. Rep. 4, 5157 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Friedman, A., Perrimon, N.: A functional RNAi screen for regulators of receptor tyrosine kinase and ERK signalling. Nature. 444, 230–234 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Robertson, J.L., Kolmakova-Partensky, L., Miller, C.: Design, function and structure of a monomeric ClC transporter. Nature. 468, 844–847 (2010)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kassai, Y., Munne, P., Hotta, Y., Penttilä, E., Kavanagh, K., Ohbayashi, N., Takada, S., Thesleff, I., Jernvall, J., Itoh, N.: Regulation of mammalian tooth cusp patterning by ectodin. Science. 309, 2067–2070 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nyce, D.S.: Position Sensors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2016)

An edited book

Janowski, T., Mohanty, H. eds: Distributed Computing and Internet Technology: 6th International Conference, ICDCIT 2010, Bhubaneswar, India, February 15-17, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Poloni, F.: Permuted Graph Matrices and Their Applications. In: Benner, P., Bollhöfer, M., Kressner, D., Mehl, C., and Stykel, T. (eds.) Numerical Algebra, Matrix Theory, Differential-Algebraic Equations and Control Theory: Festschrift in Honor of Volker Mehrmann. pp. 107–129. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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 Biological Physics.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Hurricane Forecast Accuracy Is Improving, But Don’t Overly Focus On The Skinny Black Line

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: FCC: Non-Voice, Non-Geostationary Mobile Satellite Service. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1997)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Wen, J.: Moving office document processing into the cloud, (2012)

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

Kovaleski, S.F.: Comic Says<br />His Story <br />About 9/11<br />Was a Lie, (2015)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Biological Physics
Abbreviation	J. Biol. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0092-0606
ISSN (online)	1573-0689
Scope	Biophysics Cell Biology Molecular Biology Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics