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

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

Singer, M., 2004. Education. The evolution of postdocs. Science 306, 232.

A journal article with 2 authors

Enquist, B.J., Niklas, K.J., 2002. Global allocation rules for patterns of biomass partitioning in seed plants. Science 295, 1517–1520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yuan, N., Fu, Z., Liu, S., 2014. Extracting climate memory using Fractional Integrated Statistical Model: a new perspective on climate prediction. Sci. Rep. 4, 6577.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pinkston, J.M., Garigan, D., Hansen, M., Kenyon, C., 2006. Mutations that increase the life span of C. elegans inhibit tumor growth. Science 313, 971–975.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sanchez, A., Carro, B., 2017. Digital Services in the 21st Century. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gómez, L., Horno-Delgado, A., Long, M.K., Silleras-Fernández, N. (Eds.), 2015. Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures, Teaching Gender. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Tesorio, P., 2006. Le protesi valvolari, in: Sheppard, M., Pepper, J., Rigby, M. (Eds.), Ecocardiografia Clinica. Springer, Milano, pp. 89–97.

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 Structural Biology: X.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. First Baby Born From Womb Transplant [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/first-baby-born-womb-transplant/ (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, 1976. General Accounting Office Reviews of Federal Environmental Research and Development (No. RED-76-95). 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

Rieger, K., 2012. Phenomenological Exploration of the Characteristics of Successful Women Entrepreneurs (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Giordano, M.A., Phillips, A.M., 2011. Mayor Hits Nerve in Remarks On Class Sizes and Teachers. New York Times A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Singer, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Enquist and Niklas, 2002; Singer, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Enquist and Niklas, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Pinkston et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Structural Biology: X
ISSN (print)	2590-1524
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