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

Hobert, O. (2008). Gene regulation by transcription factors and microRNAs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5871), 1785–1786.

A journal article with 2 authors

Conte, M. H., & Weber, J. C. (2002). Plant biomarkers in aerosols record isotopic discrimination of terrestrial photosynthesis. Nature, 417(6889), 639–641.

A journal article with 3 authors

Phelps, J., Webb, E. L., & Agrawal, A. (2010). Land use. Does REDD+ threaten to recentralize forest governance? Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5976), 312–313.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Samatey, F. A., Imada, K., Nagashima, S., Vonderviszt, F., Kumasaka, T., Yamamoto, M., & Namba, K. (2001). Structure of the bacterial flagellar protofilament and implications for a switch for supercoiling. Nature, 410(6826), 331–337.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simpkins, A. M., & Simpkins, C. A. (2010). Meditation and Yoga in Psychotherapy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hong, S., Auciello, O., & Wouters, D. (Eds.). (2014). Emerging Non-Volatile Memories. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Viktorova, I., Fairchild, K., & Fischer, J. (2013). Modeling Heat Explosion for a Viscoelastic Material. In J. Rychtář, S. Gupta, R. Shivaji, & M. Chhetri (Eds.), Topics from the 8th Annual UNCG Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference (pp. 31–37). 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

Andrews, R. (2016, May 23). Peculiar Ancient Marine Reptile Reveals Life Evolved Rapidly After 'Great Dying” Apocalypse. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/peculiar-ancient-marine-reptile-reveals-life-evolved-rapidly-after-great-dying/

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. (1992). NASA’s Development of EOSDIS (IMTEC-92-42R). 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

Kramer, K. A. (2010). System for Identifying Plankton from the SIPPER Instrument Platform [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Berkman, S. (2017, May 7). After Harvey Is Disciplined, The Marlins Punish His Fill-In. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hobert, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Conte & Weber, 2002; Hobert, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Conte & Weber, 2002)
Three authors: (Phelps et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Samatey et al., 2001)

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

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