How to format your references using the Journal of Biomolecular NMR citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 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

Marx V (2013) Biology: The big challenges of big data. Nature 498:255–260

A journal article with 2 authors

Sine SM, Engel AG (2006) Recent advances in Cys-loop receptor structure and function. Nature 440:448–455

A journal article with 3 authors

Galy V, Peucker-Ehrenbrink B, Eglinton T (2015) Global carbon export from the terrestrial biosphere controlled by erosion. Nature 521:204–207

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Drake JF, Swisdak M, Che H, Shay MA (2006) Electron acceleration from contracting magnetic islands during reconnection. Nature 443:553–556

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Best P (2005) Implementing Value at Risk. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Cachin C (2011) Introduction to Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming, 2nd edn. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Adshead G, Davies T (2016) Wise Restraints: Ethical Issues in the Coercion of Forensic Patients. In: Völlm B, Nedopil N (eds) The Use of Coercive Measures in Forensic Psychiatric Care: Legal, Ethical and Practical Challenges. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 69–86

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 Biomolecular NMR.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Why Do Leaves Change Color In Fall? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-do-leaves-change-color-fall/. 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 (2000) Student Loans: Direct Loan Default Rates. 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

Luong W (2009) An identity building program for American-born children of Southeast Asian refugees. 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

Kelly R (1998) Are You Now or Have You Ever Been . . . New York Times 76

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marx 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Sine and Engel 2006; Marx 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sine and Engel 2006)
Three or more authors: (Drake et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Biomolecular NMR
Abbreviation	J. Biomol. NMR
ISSN (print)	0925-2738
ISSN (online)	1573-5001
Scope	Biochemistry Spectroscopy