How to format your references using the Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes. 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

Bernstein R (2015) Into the wilderness. Science 347:1282

A journal article with 2 authors

Golde TE, Kukar TL (2009) Medicine. Avoiding unintended toxicity. Science 324:603–604

A journal article with 3 authors

Montzka SA, Dlugokencky EJ, Butler JH (2011) Non-CO2 greenhouse gases and climate change. Nature 476:43–50

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yokoyama Y, Esat TM, Thompson WG, et al (2018) Rapid glaciation and a two-step sea level plunge into the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature 559:603–607

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cornier J, Owen A, Kwade A, Van de Voorde M (2017) Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology: Innovation and Production. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Beretta S, Berkofsky A, Rugge F (eds) (2014) Italy and Japan: How Similar Are They?: A Comparative Analysis of Politics, Economics, and International Relations. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

Morris GL (2014) Sediment Management and Sustainable Use of Reservoirs. In: Wang LK, Yang CT (eds) Modern Water Resources Engineering. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 279–337

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 Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Seals With Sensors on Their Heads Record Ocean Data in Harsh, Icy Waters. In: IFLScience. 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 (2009) Career and Technical Education: States Have Broad Flexibility in Implementing Perkins IV. 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

Berkland M (2015) Strain analysis of a detachment shear zone. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Herrman J (2017) Counter Offensive. New York Times MM11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bernstein 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Golde and Kukar 2009; Bernstein 2015).

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

Two authors: (Golde and Kukar 2009)
Three or more authors: (Yokoyama et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes
Abbreviation	J. Bioenerg. Biomembr.
ISSN (print)	0145-479X
ISSN (online)	1573-6881
Scope	Cell Biology Physiology