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

Rosenbaum, T.F., 2000. A new spin on magnets. Nature 404, 556–557.

A journal article with 2 authors

Prindle, A., Hasty, J., 2010. Biochemistry. Stochastic emergence of groupthink. Science 328, 987–988.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kinnunen, J., Rodríguez, M., Törmä, P., 2004. Pairing gap and in-gap excitations in trapped fermionic superfluids. Science 305, 1131–1133.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chambers, J.Q., Higuchi, N., Tribuzy, E.S., Trumbore, S.E., 2001. Carbon sink for a century. Nature 410, 429.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva, L.S., Simões, R., Gervásio, H., 2014. Design of Steel Structures. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Fantus, I.G. (Ed.), 2011. Insulin Resistance and Cancer: Epidemiology, Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Implications, Energy Balance and Cancer. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Goto, T., Ikehata, A., 2015. Water Research by Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy, in: Ozaki, Y., Kawata, S. (Eds.), Far- and Deep-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 55–76.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Crowd Sourced Science To Revive A Space Probe [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/crowd-sourced-science-revive-space-probe/ (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, 2004. Spectrum Management: Better Knowledge Needed to Take Advantage of Technologies That May Improve Spectrum Efficiency (No. GAO-04-666). 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

Spanier, A.J., 2008. The Relationship of Genes and Environment with Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Children with Asthma (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Creswell, J., Walsh, M.W., 2016. When Your Life Insurance Gets Sick. New York Times BU1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rosenbaum, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Prindle and Hasty, 2010; Rosenbaum, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Prindle and Hasty, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Chambers et al., 2001)

About the journal

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