How to format your references using the Biophysical Reviews citation style

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

Elliott T (2014) Planetary science. Speed metal. Science 344:1086–1087

A journal article with 2 authors

Scharfman HE, Hen R (2007) Neuroscience. Is more neurogenesis always better? Science 315:336–338

A journal article with 3 authors

Bliss TVP, Collingridge GL, Laroche S (2006) Neuroscience. ZAP and ZIP, a story to forget. Science 313:1058–1059

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Won J, Kim M, Yi Y-W, et al (2005) A magnetic nanoprobe technology for detecting molecular interactions in live cells. Science 309:121–125

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

May V, Kühn O (2007) Charge and Energy Transfer Dynamics in Molecular Systems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Li H (ed) (2015) Radiology of Infectious Diseases: Volume 1, 1st ed. 2015. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Tempesta T (2013) Landscape and Economy. In: Agnoletti M (ed) Italian Historical Rural Landscapes: Cultural Values for the Environment and Rural Development. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 153–164

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 Biophysical Reviews.

Blog post

Andrew E (2016) Moving Beyond Pro/Con Debates Over Genetically Engineered Crops. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/moving-beyond-procon-debates-over-genetically-engineered-crops/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2001) Aviation Security: Vulnerabilities in, and Alternatives for, Preboard Screening Security Operations. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cuellar D (2011) Impact of boring insects on the reproductive success of Hesperoyucca whipplei (Our Lord’s candle). Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Davey M, Walsh MW (2014) Plan to Exit Bankruptcy Is Approved for Detroit. New York Times A11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Elliott 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Scharfman and Hen 2007; Elliott 2014).

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

Two authors: (Scharfman and Hen 2007)
Three or more authors: (Won et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biophysical Reviews
Abbreviation	Biophys. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1867-2450
ISSN (online)	1867-2469
Scope	Biophysics Molecular Biology Structural Biology