How to format your references using the BBA - Proteins and Proteomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BBA - Proteins and Proteomics. 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]

F. Wu, Perspective: time to face the fungal threat, Nature 516 (2014) S7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Barkai, S. Leibler, Circadian clocks limited by noise, Nature 403 (2000) 267–268.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. Appelbaum, B. Huang, D.J. Monsma, Electronic measurement and control of spin transport in silicon, Nature 447 (2007) 295–298.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Xiong, B. Xi, K. Zhang, Y. Chen, J. Jiang, J. Hu, H.C. Zeng, Ag nanoprisms with Ag₂S attachment, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2177.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Nash, Diabetes and Wellbeing, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

V. Sanchis-Alfonso, ed., Patellar Instability Surgery in Clinical Practice, Springer, London, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Miki, T. Inoue, Y. Goto, M. Watanabe, H. Hayashi, Human-Like Local Navigation System Inspired by a Hippocampal Memory Mechanism, in: A. Hanazawa, T. Miki, K. Horio (Eds.), Brain-Inspired Information Technology, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 29–32.

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 - Proteins and Proteomics.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Astronomers Spot Huge Galaxy Cluster From The Early Universe, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-spot-huge-galaxy-cluster-early-universe/ (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, Greater Use of Satellite Telecommunications To Link ADP Facilities Could Save Millions, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.M.-X. Pham, Flymed Pharmacy, LLC, Home Delivery Services a Business Plan, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

L. Greenhouse, In a 6-to-3 Vote, Justices Uphold A Voter ID Law, New York Times (2008) 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 - Proteins and Proteomics
Abbreviation	Biochim. Biophys. Acta Proteins Proteom.
ISSN (print)	1570-9639
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Molecular Biology Analytical Chemistry