How to format your references using the Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Biophysics and Molecular 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

Woof, J.M., 2005. Immunology. Tipping the scales toward more effective antibodies. Science 310, 1442–1443.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shintani, T., Klionsky, D.J., 2004. Autophagy in health and disease: a double-edged sword. Science 306, 990–995.

A journal article with 3 authors

D’Hondt, S., Rutherford, S., Spivack, A.J., 2002. Metabolic activity of subsurface life in deep-sea sediments. Science 295, 2067–2070.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mauk, B.H., Clarke, J.T., Grodent, D., Waite, J.H., Jr, Paranicas, C.P., Williams, D.J., 2002. Transient aurora on Jupiter from injections of magnetospheric electrons. Nature 415, 1003–1005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kondrashov, A.S., 2017. Crumbling Genome. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Steen, M. van, Henning, M. (Eds.), 2006. Middleware 2006: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th International Middleware Conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 27-December 1, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Maclennan, D., 2007. Recovery and Change: Glasgow’s Housing 1991–2001, in: Andersson, Å.E., Pettersson, L., Strömquist, U. (Eds.), European Metropolitan Housing Markets, Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 121–143.

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 Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Earth’s First Land Vertebrates Used Their Lungs to Detect Sounds [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1988. FAA Technical Center: Mission and Role in National Airspace System Plan Implementation (No. IMTEC-88-6BR). 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

Rahimi, R.M., 2014. Investigation of Porosity Evolution and Orthotropic Axes on Anisotropic Materials (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Forsberg, M.E., 2010. A Hudson Tunnel That Goes One Way. New York Times A33.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Woof, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Shintani and Klionsky, 2004; Woof, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Shintani and Klionsky, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Mauk et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Abbreviation	Prog. Biophys. Mol. Biol.
ISSN (print)	0079-6107
Scope	Biophysics Molecular Biology