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

Fiete, G.A.: Physics. How do you want that insulator? Science. 332, 546–547 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Jing, Z., Wu, L.: Intensified diapycnal mixing in the midlatitude western boundary currents. Sci. Rep. 4, 7412 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Thibodeaux, C.J., Melançon, C.E., Liu, H.-W.: Unusual sugar biosynthesis and natural product glycodiversification. Nature. 446, 1008–1016 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Messaoudi, I., Guevara Patiño, J.A., Dyall, R., LeMaoult, J., Nikolich-Zugich, J.: Direct link between mhc polymorphism, T cell avidity, and diversity in immune defense. Science. 298, 1797–1800 (2002)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boberski, V.: Community Banking Strategies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Bodlaender, H.L., Downey, R., Fomin, F.V., Marx, D. eds: The Multivariate Algorithmic Revolution and Beyond: Essays Dedicated to Michael R. Fellows on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Lutter, S., Makinen, T.: Regulation of Lymphatic Vasculature by Extracellular Matrix. In: Kiefer, F. and Schulte-Merker, S. (eds.) Developmental Aspects of the Lymphatic Vascular System. pp. 55–65. Springer, Vienna (2014)

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

Hale, T.: These Bees Pulled Strings To Prove They Can Learn And Share New Skills, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/these-bees-pulled-strings-to-prove-they-can-learn-and-share-new-skills/

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: Export Controls: National Security Risks and Revisions to Controls on Computer Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2000)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bowles, A.: The development of a standard of care for competency to stand trial evaluations, (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

Greenhouse, L.: Justices’ Vote in Death Case Is Close Again, but Differing, (2007)

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