How to format your references using the BBA - General Subjects citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BBA - General Subjects. 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 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

[1]

G. Shiflet, Materials science. The more elements, the merrier, Science 300 (2003) 443–444.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.A. Shafto, L.K. Tyler, Language in the aging brain: the network dynamics of cognitive decline and preservation, Science 346 (2014) 583–587.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Heuberger, M. Zäch, N.D. Spencer, Density fluctuations under confinement: when is a fluid not a fluid?, Science 292 (2001) 905–908.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Liénart, R. Merceron, C. Vanderaa, F. Lambert, D. Colau, J. Stockis, B. van der Woning, H. De Haard, M. Saunders, P.G. Coulie, S.N. Savvides, S. Lucas, Structural basis of latent TGF-β1 presentation and activation by GARP on human regulatory T cells, Science 362 (2018) 952–956.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T.N. Corns, A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

X. Fischer, A. Daidie, B. Eynard, M. Paredes, eds., Research in Interactive Design (Vol. 4): Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Mussa, Advantages, Disadvantages, and Indications of PICCs in Inpatients and Outpatients, in: S. Sandrucci, B. Mussa (Eds.), Peripherally Inserted Central Venous Catheters, Springer, Milano, 2014: pp. 43–51.

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 BBA - General Subjects.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Large Study Concludes Homeopathy Does Not Effectively Treat Any Health Condition, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/homeopathy-ineffective-study-concludes/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Information Technology: DHS Needs to Enhance Management of Cost and Schedule for Major Investments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

W.H. Bigler, Increased substance abuse treatment for adolescents, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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

[1]

M.J. de la MERCED, Activist Hedge Fund Picks A New Target: ComScore, New York Times (2017) B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	BBA - General Subjects
Abbreviation	Biochim. Biophys. Acta Gen. Subj.
ISSN (print)	0304-4165
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Molecular Biology