How to format your references using the Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics citation style

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

Kerr, R. A. (2000). PLANETARY SCIENCE: Making a Splash With a Hint of Mars Water. Science (New York, N.Y.), 288(5475), 2295–2297.

A journal article with 2 authors

Logan, B. E., & Rabaey, K. (2012). Conversion of wastes into bioelectricity and chemicals by using microbial electrochemical technologies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6095), 686–690.

A journal article with 3 authors

Young, B. A., Gruber, T. M., & Gross, C. A. (2004). Minimal machinery of RNA polymerase holoenzyme sufficient for promoter melting. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5662), 1382–1384.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Sagar, D. M., Aoudjane, S., Gaudet, M., Aeppli, G., & Dalby, P. A. (2013). Optically induced thermal gradients for protein characterization in nanolitre-scale samples in microfluidic devices. Scientific Reports, 3, 2130.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baldwin, P. (2010). OSx86. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Keller, A., & Martin-Flatin, J.-P. (Eds.). (2006). Self-Managed Networks, Systems, and Services: Second IEEE International Workshop, SelfMan 2006, Dublin, Ireland, June 16, 2006. Proceedings (Vol. 3996). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jeong, E., & Kim, D. (2014). Detecting the Vibration in the Artificial Web Inspired by the Spider. In A. P. del Pobil, E. Chinellato, E. Martinez-Martin, J. Hallam, E. Cervera, & A. Morales (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 13: 13th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2014, Castellón, Spain, July 22-25, 2014. Proceedings (pp. 43–52). Springer International Publishing.

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 Structure and Dynamics.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, June 16). Very Hot Drinks “Probably” Cause Cancer, Says The World Health Organization. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/very-hot-drinks-probably-cause-cancer-says-the-world-health-organization/

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. (1988). Aircraft Noise: Implementation of FAA’s Expanded East Coast Plan (RCED-88-143). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Payne, L. G. (2015). The experience of caring for women with drug or alcohol problems in the general hospital [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic University.

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

Jorden, J. (2017, September 20). Scaling the Everest of Opera. New York Times, AR8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerr, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kerr, 2000; Logan & Rabaey, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Logan & Rabaey, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Sagar et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
Abbreviation	J. Biomol. Struct. Dyn.
ISSN (print)	0739-1102
ISSN (online)	1538-0254
Scope	Molecular Biology Structural Biology General Medicine