How to format your references using the Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics citation style

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

Polyakov, V. B. (2009). Equilibrium iron isotope fractionation at core-mantle boundary conditions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5916), 912–914.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barron, A. B., & Brown, M. J. F. (2012). Science journalism: Let’s talk about sex. Nature, 488(7410), 151–152.

A journal article with 3 authors

Koenderink, A. F., Alù, A., & Polman, A. (2015). Nanophotonics: shrinking light-based technology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6234), 516–521.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yeh, S.-W., Kug, J.-S., Dewitte, B., Kwon, M.-H., Kirtman, B. P., & Jin, F.-F. (2009). El Niño in a changing climate. Nature, 461(7263), 511–514.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lin, X. S. (2006). Introductory Stochastic Analysis for Finance and Insurance: Lin/Introductory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sánchez-Alonso, S., & Athanasiadis, I. N. (Eds.). (2010). Metadata and Semantic Research: 4th International Conference, MTSR 2010, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, October 20-22, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 108). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Le Guernic, G. (2007). Information Flow Testing. In I. Cervesato (Ed.), Advances in Computer Science – ASIAN 2007. Computer and Network Security: 12th Asian Computing Science Conference, Doha, Qatar, December 9-11, 2007. Proceedings (pp. 33–47). Springer.

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 Structure and Dynamics.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2017, March 3). You Are Living Inside A Massive, Musical Instrument – And Here’s What It Sounds Like. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/you-are-living-inside-a-massive-musical-instrument-and-heres-what-it-sounds-like/

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. (2008). Federal-Aid Highways: Federal Requirements for Highways May Influence Funding Decisions and Create Challenges, but Benefits and Costs Are Not Tracked (GAO-09-36). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lake, A. D. (2013). Hepatic stress response mechanisms in progressive human nonalcoholic fatty liver disease [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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, C. (2014, May 18). Texas Noir, by Directors Who Aren’t From Texas. New York Times, A25B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Polyakov, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Barron & Brown, 2012; Polyakov, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Barron & Brown, 2012)
Three authors: (Koenderink et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Yeh et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
Abbreviation	J. Biomol. Struct. Dyn.
ISSN (print)	0739-1102
ISSN (online)	1538-0254
Scope	Molecular Biology Structural Biology General Medicine