How to format your references using the Annual Review of Biophysics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Biophysics. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Gavaghan H. 2000. Making moves to redress the gender imbalance. Nature. 405(6787):715–16

A journal article with 2 authors

Gray RD, Atkinson QD. 2003. Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin. Nature. 426(6965):435–39

A journal article with 3 authors

Katsanis SH, Javitt G, Hudson K. 2008. Public health. A case study of personalized medicine. Science. 320(5872):53–54

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Berglund GI, Carlsson GH, Smith AT, Szöke H, Henriksen A, Hajdu J. 2002. The catalytic pathway of horseradish peroxidase at high resolution. Nature. 417(6887):463–68

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruppel W. 2015. Wiley GAAP for Governments 2015. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Ma Z, ed. 2006. Soft Computing in Ontologies and Semantic Web, Vol. 204. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XI, 269 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Abbas AE, Hanson I, Pica MC. 2015. Invasive Evaluation of Aortic Stenosis. In Aortic Stenosis: Case-Based Diagnosis and Therapy, ed AE Abbas, pp. 55–69. London: Springer

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 Annual Review of Biophysics.

Blog post

Hamilton K. 2017. Neuralink Wants To Wire Your Brain To The Internet – What Could Possibly Go Wrong? IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/neuralink-wants-to-wire-your-brain-to-the-internet-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/

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. 2011. Initial Pilot Training: Better Management Controls Are Needed to Improve FAA Oversight. GAO-12-117, 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

Wosu UL. 2017. Geochemical Analysis of Late Pleistocene Sediments from Fossil Lake, Northern Lake County, Oregon. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of Louisiana

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

Wines M. 2017. Under Fire as It Begins, Voter Fraud Panel Meets. New York Times, July 19, p. A18

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2, 4).
This sentence cites four references (3, 5, 7, 8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Biophysics
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Biophys.
ISSN (print)	1936-122X
ISSN (online)	1936-1238
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Cell Biology Structural Biology Bioengineering