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

Ferguson, C. D. (2011). Do not phase out nuclear power - yet. Nature, 471(7339), 411.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, Y., & Daum, P. H. (2002). Anthropogenic aerosols. Indirect warming effect from dispersion forcing. Nature, 419(6907), 580–581.

A journal article with 3 authors

Snyder, A., Pamer, E., & Wolchok, J. (2015). IMMUNOTHERAPY. Could microbial therapy boost cancer immunotherapy? Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6264), 1031–1032.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yukimoto, N., Tsutsui, M., He, Y., Shintaku, H., Tanaka, S., Kawano, S., Kawai, T., & Taniguchi, M. (2013). Tracking single-particle dynamics via combined optical and electrical sensing. Scientific Reports, 3, 1855.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsch, R. (2017). Convergence. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chen, Y. (Ed.). (2010). Energy Science & Technology in China: A Roadmap to 2050. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kolobov, A. V., & Tominaga, J. (2016). From 3D to 2D: Fabrication Methods. In J. Tominaga (Ed.), Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides (pp. 79–107). Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, August 6). Shark Safety Tips: Sorting Out Fact From Fiction. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/shark-safety-tips-sorting-out-fact-fiction/

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. (1989). Information Management: Issues Important to Farmers Home Administration Systems Modernization (IMTEC-89-64). 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

Collette, J. C. (2017). Validation of the tgFgfr1-EGFP Mouse Line as a Tool to Study Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 1 Cellular Localization and Expression After Experimental Manipulations [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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, January 13). Safe, for Now. New York Times, 141.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ferguson, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ferguson, 2011; Liu & Daum, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Liu & Daum, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Yukimoto et al., 2013)

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