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

Moazed, D., 2009. Molecular biology. Rejoice--RNAi for yeast. Science 326, 533–534.

A journal article with 2 authors

McConnell, J.R., Barton, M.K., 2003. Botany. Leaf development takes shape. Science 299, 1328–1329.

A journal article with 3 authors

Putnam, C.D., Hayes, T.K., Kolodner, R.D., 2009. Specific pathways prevent duplication-mediated genome rearrangements. Nature 460, 984–989.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Herrero, M., Thornton, P.K., Notenbaert, A.M., Wood, S., Msangi, S., Freeman, H.A., Bossio, D., Dixon, J., Peters, M., van de Steeg, J., Lynam, J., Parthasarathy Rao, P., Macmillan, S., Gerard, B., McDermott, J., Seré, C., Rosegrant, M., 2010. Smart investments in sustainable food production: revisiting mixed crop-livestock systems. Science 327, 822–825.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flood, J.M., 2014. Practitioner’s Guide to GAAS 2014. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

An edited book

Di Nardo, A., 2013. Water Supply Network District Metering: Theory and Case Study, CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences. Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

Ursula Rao, 2016. Urban Negotiations and Small-Scale Gentrification in a Delhi Resettlement Colony, in: Chakravarty, S., Negi, R. (Eds.), Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi, Exploring Urban Change in South Asia. Springer India, New Delhi, pp. 77–89.

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

Davis, J., 2016. India Ratifies Paris Climate Agreement, Bringing World Closer To A Binding Deal [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/india-ratifies-paris-climate-agreement-bringing-world-closer-to-a-binding-deal/ (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, 2016. Highlights of a Forum: Data and Analytics Innovation: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges (No. GAO-16-659SP). 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

DeLima, L.E., 2017. Implementing an Innovative Educational Program in an Era of Accountability: An Interview Study of the Expeditionary Learning Program (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Crow, K., 2001. Looking For Love. New York Times 141.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moazed, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (McConnell and Barton, 2003; Moazed, 2009).

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

Two authors: (McConnell and Barton, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Herrero et al., 2010)

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