How to format your references using the BBA - Molecular Cell Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BBA - Molecular Cell Research. 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

[1]

E.F. DeLong, Evolution. Microbial evolution in the wild, Science 336 (2012) 422–424.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Lee, J. Seo, Three-dimensionally networked graphene hydroxide with giant pores and its application in supercapacitors, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7419.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K.G. Johnson, J.B.C. Jackson, A.F. Budd, Caribbean reef development was independent of coral diversity over 28 million years, Science 319 (2008) 1521–1523.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B.L. Higgins, D.W. Berry, S.D. Bartlett, H.M. Wiseman, G.J. Pryde, Entanglement-free Heisenberg-limited phase estimation, Nature 450 (2007) 393–396.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Young, J. Smith, Helping Children with ADHD, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

J. Tröger, Paediatric Imaging Manual, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Lahr, B. Kahn, S. Morton, Radioanalytical Chemistry Principles and Practices, in: B. Kahn (Ed.), Radioanalytical Chemistry, Springer, New York, NY, 2007: pp. 64–76.

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 BBA - Molecular Cell Research.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Researchers Make “Invisibility Cloak” From Ordinary Lenses, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/physics/ordinary-lens-used-cloaking-device/ (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, Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Status of Airports’ Efforts to Deal with Date Change Problem, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Mylonas, “Women are the pillars of the family”: Athenian women’s survival strategies during economic crisis, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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. Flegenheimer, C Train Cafe? The M.T.A. May Put Up a Fight, New York Times (2013) A1.

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 - Molecular Cell Research
Abbreviation	Biochim. Biophys. Acta Mol. Cell Res.
ISSN (print)	0167-4889
Scope	Cell Biology Molecular Biology