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

Levine AG (2008) Science careers. Finance’s quant(um) mechanics. Science 322:1264–1265

A journal article with 2 authors

Bodirsky BL, Popp A (2015) Sustainability: Australia at the crossroads. Nature 527:40–41

A journal article with 3 authors

Arnqvist G, Jones TM, Elgar MA (2003) Insect behaviour: reversal of sex roles in nuptial feeding. Nature 424:387

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yuan J, Cheng KC-C, Johnson RL, et al (2011) Chemical genomic profiling for antimalarial therapies, response signatures, and molecular targets. Science 333:724–729

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Studer Q (2007) Results that Last. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ross CL (2014) Health Impact Assessment in the United States. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Wassenaar TM, Newell DG (2006) The Genus Campylobacter. In: Dworkin M, Falkow S, Rosenberg E, et al. (eds) The Prokaryotes: Volume 7: Proteobacteria: Delta, Epsilon Subclass. Springer, New York, NY, pp 119–138

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

Hamilton K (2016) Computers May Be Evolving But Are They Intelligent? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/computers-may-be-evolving-but-are-they-intelligent/. 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 (2004) Computer-Based Patient Records: Improved Planning and Project Management Are Critical to Achieving Two-Way VA-DOD Health Data Exchange. 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

Lansdon J (2010) A policy analysis of California’s three strikes law of 1994. 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

Crow K (2002) Taming the Biblical Plagues Of Mud and Frogs at a Meadow. New York Times 146

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Levine 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Levine 2008; Bodirsky and Popp 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bodirsky and Popp 2015)
Three or more authors: (Yuan et al. 2011)

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