How to format your references using the Journal of Biomolecular NMR citation style

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

Wood CL (2014) Environment. Environmental change and the ecology of infectious disease. Science 346:1192

A journal article with 2 authors

Bilham R, England P (2001) Plateau “pop-up” in the great 1897 Assam earthquake. Nature 410:806–809

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

Busino L, Bassermann F, Maiolica A, et al (2007) SCFFbxl3 controls the oscillation of the circadian clock by directing the degradation of cryptochrome proteins. Science 316:900–904

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goldstein LSB, Schneider M (2010) Stem Cells for Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Strauß P-M (2010) Proactive Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Multi-Party Environments, 1st edn. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Nguyen C, Park J (2016) Development of Stepped-Frequency Continuous-Wave Radar Sensors. In: Park J (ed) Stepped-Frequency Radar Sensors: Theory, Analysis and Design. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 65–97

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 Biomolecular NMR.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) Deep Sea Expedition Records Animal Behavior Only Known From 252-Million-Year-Old Fossils. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/deep-sea-expedition-records-animal-behavior-only-known-from-252millionyearold-fossils/. 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 (1980) NASA Lewis Research Center Attempts To Procure Suitable Wind Turbine Rotor Blades. 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

Sharp LM (2009) Creative nonfiction illuminated: Cross-disciplinary spotlights. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Poems SVS, PROSE OF PAUL CELAN. Translated by John Felstiner. (Norton, $17.95.) This collection of work by one of the greatest European poets of the postwar period is translated by the author of the 1995 biography ’ ’Paul Celan: Poet, et al (2001) New & Noteworthy Paperbacks. New York Times 716

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wood 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bilham and England 2001; Wood 2014).

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

Two authors: (Bilham and England 2001)
Three or more authors: (Busino et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Biomolecular NMR
Abbreviation	J. Biomol. NMR
ISSN (print)	0925-2738
ISSN (online)	1573-5001
Scope	Biochemistry Spectroscopy