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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Structural Biology: X. 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

Brumfiel, G., 2003. French minister breaks diplomatic ice with visit to US. Nature 422, 551.

A journal article with 2 authors

Menon, S., Manning, B.D., 2013. Cell signalling: nutrient sensing lost in cancer. Nature 498, 444–445.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bintanja, R., van de Wal, R.S.W., Oerlemans, J., 2005. Modelled atmospheric temperatures and global sea levels over the past million years. Nature 437, 125–128.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nowak, A.P., Breedveld, V., Pakstis, L., Ozbas, B., Pine, D.J., Pochan, D., Deming, T.J., 2002. Rapidly recovering hydrogel scaffolds from self-assembling diblock copolypeptide amphiphiles. Nature 417, 424–428.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morana, J., 2013. Sustainable Supply Chain Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Tryfonas, T. (Ed.), 2016. Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust: 4th International Conference, HAS 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17-22, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Magin, S., Huber, F., Herrmann, A., 2015. Determinants of Teenagers’ Brand Buying Behavior — Development of a Structural Equation Model, in: Moore, M., Moore, R.S. (Eds.), New Meanings for Marketing in a New Millennium: Proceedings of the 2001 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference, Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 12–16.

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: X.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. Revolutionary “Space Plane” Could Fly Anywhere In The World In Just Four Hours [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/revolutionary-space-plane-could-fly-anywhere-in-the-world-in-just-four-hours/ (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, 2013. Pipeline Safety: Better Data and Guidance Needed to Improve Pipeline Operator Incident Response (No. GAO-13-168). 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

Lizarraga, D., 2017. Effects of large inedible particles on the feeding performance of echinodem larvae (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. For Ahkeem. New York Times C9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brumfiel, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Brumfiel, 2003; Menon and Manning, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Menon and Manning, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Nowak et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Structural Biology: X
ISSN (print)	2590-1524
Scope