How to format your references using the European Biophysics Journal citation style

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

Brashares JS (2010) Ecology. Filtering wildlife. Science 329:402–403

A journal article with 2 authors

Wei J, Tong L (2015) Crystal structure of the 500-kDa yeast acetyl-CoA carboxylase holoenzyme dimer. Nature 526:723–727

A journal article with 3 authors

Li X, Zhao J, Yang J (2013) Semihydrogenated BN sheet: a promising visible-light driven photocatalyst for water splitting. Sci Rep 3:1858

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Koide S, Huang X, Link K, et al (2000) Design of single-layer beta-sheets without a hydrophobic core. Nature 403:456–460

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee (2005) Continuous Direct-Heat Rotary Dryers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Wright D, Hert PD (eds) (2012) Privacy Impact Assessment. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Adhikari A, Ramachandrarao P, Pedrycz W (2010) Mining Patterns of Select Items in Multiple Databases. In: Ramachandrarao P, Pedrycz W (eds) Developing Multi-Database Mining Applications. Springer, London, pp 51–70

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 European Biophysics Journal.

Blog post

Fang J (2016) Plants Are “Biting” Back With The Same Mineral Found In Human Teeth. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/plants-are-biting-back-same-mineral-found-human-teeth/. 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 (2011) On-the-Job Training: Federal Highway Administration Needs to Strengthen Program Assessment. 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

Fernandes JM (2017) Physical and chemical properties of Jupiter’s north and south polar vortex revealed through mid-infrared imaging. 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

Wagner J (2017) Still Standing, if Barely Upright, Cubs Face a Quick Turnaround. New York Times SP7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brashares 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Brashares 2010; Wei and Tong 2015).

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

Two authors: (Wei and Tong 2015)
Three or more authors: (Koide et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Biophysics Journal
Abbreviation	Eur. Biophys. J.
ISSN (print)	0175-7571
ISSN (online)	1432-1017
Scope	Biophysics General Medicine