How to format your references using the Journal of Structural Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Structural Biology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Montgomery, S.L., 2001. Gained in the translation. Nature 409, 667.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kidner, C.A., Martienssen, R.A., 2004. Spatially restricted microRNA directs leaf polarity through ARGONAUTE1. Nature 428, 81–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, I.-H., Shin, S., Choi, T.-L., 2015. Materials science. Building supermicelles from simple polymers. Science 347, 1310–1311.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Caggiano, V., Fogassi, L., Rizzolatti, G., Thier, P., Casile, A., 2009. Mirror neurons differentially encode the peripersonal and extrapersonal space of monkeys. Science 324, 403–406.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matlock, M.D., Morgan, R.A., 2011. Ecological Engineering Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Manimala, M.J., Wasdani, K.P. (Eds.), 2015. Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Perspectives from Emerging Economies. Springer India, New Delhi.

A chapter in an edited book

Dumova, T., 2015. Engaging Technology in University-Community Partnerships, in: Jacob, W.J., Sutin, S.E., Weidman, J.C., Yeager, J.L. (Eds.), Community Engagement in Higher Education: Policy Reforms and Practice. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 51–71.

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 Structural Biology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. Water Stays Frozen Above Boiling Point When Trapped In Carbon Nanotubes [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/water-stays-frozen-above-boiling-point-when-trapped-in-carbon-nanotubes/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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. Stafford Student Loans: Lower Subsidy Payments Could Achieve Savings Without Affecting Access (No. HRD-92-7). 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

Paik, Y., 2012. Redefining multidisciplinary teams: An institutional approach (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Hubbard, B., 2017. TV Drama Takes Arabs Inside Life Under ISIS. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Montgomery, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Kidner and Martienssen, 2004; Montgomery, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Kidner and Martienssen, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Caggiano et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Structural Biology
Abbreviation	J. Struct. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1047-8477
Scope	Structural Biology