How to format your references using the Biological Rhythm Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biological Rhythm 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

Aldhous P. 2000. Global warming could be bad news for Arctic ozone layer. Nature. 404(6778):531.

A journal article with 2 authors

Russo T, Volterra V. 2005. Comment on “children creating core properties of language: evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua.” Science. 309(5731):56; author reply 56.

A journal article with 3 authors

Levison HF, Kretke KA, Duncan MJ. 2015. Growing the gas-giant planets by the gradual accumulation of pebbles. Nature. 524(7565):322–324.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Tuzzolino AJ, Economou TE, Clark BC, Tsou P, Brownlee DE, Green SF, McDonnell JAM, McBride N, Colwell MTSH. 2004. Dust measurements in the coma of comet 81P/Wild 2 by the Dust Flux Monitor Instrument. Science. 304(5678):1776–1780.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zonnenshain A, Stauber S. 2015. Managing and Engineering Complex Technological Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bhowmik SK. 2013. Financial Inclusion of the Marginalised: Street Vendors in the Urban Economy. Saha D, editor. New Delhi: Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Bogdan DB, Villiger R. 2010. Case Studies. In: Villiger R, editor. Valuation in Life Sciences: A Practical Guide. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 331–361.

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 Biological Rhythm Research.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2017. The Blood Of Dragons Could Destroy Antibiotic Resistance. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/blood-dragons-destroy-antibiotic-resistance/

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. 2009. Aviation Safety: NASA’s National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service Project Was Designed Appropriately, but Sampling and Other Issues Complicate Data Analysis. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tripathi RB. 2008. Oligodendrogensis Following Experimental Spinal Cord Injury [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University.

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

de la MERCED MJ. 2017. Activist Fund Pushes Nestlé For Shake-Up. New York Times.:B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Aldhous 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Aldhous 2000; Russo and Volterra 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Russo and Volterra 2005)
Three or more authors: (Tuzzolino et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biological Rhythm Research
Abbreviation	Biol. Rhythm Res.
ISSN (print)	0929-1016
ISSN (online)	1744-4179
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Physiology Physiology (medical)