How to format your references using the Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Biophysics and Molecular 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

Kratky, C., 2013. A coordinated approach is key for open access. Nature 500, 503.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lazar, M.A., Birnbaum, M.J., 2012. Physiology. De-meaning of metabolism. Science 336, 1651–1652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Runyon, J.B., Mescher, M.C., De Moraes, C.M., 2006. Volatile chemical cues guide host location and host selection by parasitic plants. Science 313, 1964–1967.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fujioka, Y., Ishigaki, S., Masuda, A., Iguchi, Y., Udagawa, T., Watanabe, H., Katsuno, M., Ohno, K., Sobue, G., 2013. FUS-regulated region- and cell-type-specific transcriptome is associated with cell selectivity in ALS/FTLD. Sci. Rep. 3, 2388.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Staudt, G., 2001. Experimentalphysik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Eifel, P.J., Gershenson, D.M., Kavanagh, J.J., Silva, E.G. (Eds.), 2006. Gynecologic Cancer, M. D. Anderson Cancer Care Series. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Mitra, S., Mondal, A., 2016. Secure Inter-Vehicle Communication: A Need for Evolution of VANET Towards the Internet of Vehicles, in: Mahmood, Z. (Ed.), Connectivity Frameworks for Smart Devices: The Internet of Things from a Distributed Computing Perspective, Computer Communications and Networks. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 63–96.

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 Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Watch Live As A Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-platinum-asteroid-worth-trillions-dollars-flies-past-earth/ (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, 1995. Army Aviation Requirements (No. NSIAD-96-81R). 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

Francom, C., 2012. Análisis sociolingüístico de eleccion de lengua en encuentros de servicio: Una perspectiva etnográfica y experimental (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2002. World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: Panel To Study Reforms. 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 (Kratky, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Kratky, 2013; Lazar and Birnbaum, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Lazar and Birnbaum, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Fujioka et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Abbreviation	Prog. Biophys. Mol. Biol.
ISSN (print)	0079-6107
Scope	Biophysics Molecular Biology