How to format your references using the Biomolecules citation style

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

Goldston, D. Sending out an SOS. Nature 2009, 460, 679.

A journal article with 2 authors

Padian, K.; Dial, K.P. Origin of Flight: Could “four-Winged” Dinosaurs Fly? Nature 2005, 438, E3; discussion E3-4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sparrow, B.; Liu, J.; Wegner, D.M. Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips. Science 2011, 333, 776–778.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pietzsch, O.; Kubetzka, A.; Bode, M.; Wiesendanger, R. Observation of Magnetic Hysteresis at the Nanometer Scale by Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy. Science 2001, 292, 2053–2056.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zwecher, M.J. Retirement Portfolios; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010; ISBN 9781118268261.

An edited book

Leung, T. Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development; Duran, Y., Ed.; Apress: Berkeley, CA, 2012; ISBN 9781430240082.

A chapter in an edited book

Malaval, P.; Bénaroya, C.; Aflalo, J. Marketing and Sales Action Plan. In Aerospace Marketing Management: A Handbook for the Entire Value Chain; Bénaroya, C., Aflalo, J., Eds.; Management for Professionals; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp. 157–170 ISBN 9783319013534.

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 Biomolecules.

Blog post

Andrew, D. Gawker Had Its Problems, But Its Death Is Worrying For All Watchdog Journalist Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/gawker-had-its-problems-but-its-death-is-worrying-for-all-watchdog-journalist/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Slotting Fees: Effort to Study the Use of These Payments in the Grocery Industry; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2000;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhuang, S. Enhancing Implicit Finite Element Sheet Forming Simulation. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, 2008.

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

Crow, K. An Enigmatic Golden Trophy Evokes a Saloon’s Good Times. New York Times 2001, 147.

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	Biomolecules
Abbreviation	Biomolecules
ISSN (online)	2218-273X
Scope