How to format your references using the Journal of Structural Biology citation style

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

Cole, A.A., 2000. ASTRONOMY: The Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud. Science 289, 1149–1150.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, Y., Zhang, Z., 2014. Potential microRNA-mediated oncogenic intercellular communication revealed by pan-cancer analysis. Sci. Rep. 4, 7097.

A journal article with 3 authors

Delamarre, L., Mellman, I., Yadav, M., 2015. Cancer immunotherapy. Neo approaches to cancer vaccines. Science 348, 760–761.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gomez, C., Ozbudak, E.M., Wunderlich, J., Baumann, D., Lewis, J., Pourquié, O., 2008. Control of segment number in vertebrate embryos. Nature 454, 335–339.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kagan, E., Ben-Gal, I., 2013. Probabilistic Search for Tracking Targets. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Yang, M., 2015. Energy Efficiency: Benefits for Environment and Society, Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Gonzalez, M.A., 2010. Badlands of the Northern Great Plains: Hell with the Fires Out, in: Migon, P. (Ed.), Geomorphological Landscapes of the World. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 29–38.

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 Structural Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Indian White Tiger Could Be Too Shy To Mate [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/indian-white-tiger-could-be-shy-mate/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1989. P.L. 480 Title I Transportation Issues (No. T-NSIAD-90-8). 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

Flamenco, E., 2015. A financial abuse prevention program for older adults: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Von Aue, M., 2017. A Radical Redo for ‘Madama Butterfly.’ New York Times C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cole, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Cole, 2000; Li and Zhang, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Li and Zhang, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Gomez et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Structural Biology
Abbreviation	J. Struct. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1047-8477
Scope	Structural Biology