How to format your references using the Bioarchitecture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bioarchitecture. 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

Kasting JF. Earth history. The rise of atmospheric oxygen. Science 2001; 293:819–20.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stein RS, Toda S. Geophysics. Megacity megaquakes--two near misses. Science 2013; 341:850–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Van Roy P, Daley AC, Briggs DEG. Anomalocaridid trunk limb homology revealed by a giant filter-feeder with paired flaps. Nature 2015; 522:77–80.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Young L, Leonhard K, Tatsuta T, Trowsdale J, Langer T. Role of the ABC transporter Mdl1 in peptide export from mitochondria. Science 2001; 291:2135–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hogg RM, Fulk RD. A Grammar of Old English. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Xiang Y, Cuzzocrea A, Hobbs M, Zhou W, editors. Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing: 11th International Conference, ICA300 2011, Melbourne, Australia, October 24-26, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Yasukochi Y, Fujii H, Goldsmith MR. Silkworm. In: Kole C, editor. Genome Mapping and Genomics in Arthropods. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. page 43–57.

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 Bioarchitecture.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Newly Discovered “Blast Waves” Found In The Sun’s Atmosphere. IFLScience2015;

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. Training America’s Labor Force: Potential, Progress, and Problems of Vocational Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reynaldo R. Healthcare Leaders Under the Age of 40 - Successful Strategies and Practices for Leading Healthcare Organizations. 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

Scott M, Kanter J. E.U. Ruling Said to Aim at Tax Policy for Apple. New York Times2016; :B1.

In-text citations

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

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	Bioarchitecture
Abbreviation	Bioarchitecture
ISSN (print)	1949-0992
ISSN (online)	1949-100X
Scope	Cell Biology Structural Biology General Medicine