Request for a citation style for Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

lmtsci
I am preparing a manuscript for submission to the journal Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, but it is not listed in the repository. Here is the information on the formatting of the style from the journal's website:

Reference style
Text: Indicate references by number(s) in square brackets in line with the text. The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given.
Example: "..... as demonstrated [3,6]. Barnaby and Jones [8] obtained a different result ...."
List: Number the references (numbers in square brackets) in the list in the order in which they appear in the text.
Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
[1] J. van der Geer, J.A.J. Hanraads, R.A. Lupton, The art of writing a scientific article, J. Sci. Commun. 163 (2000) 51–59.
Reference to a book:
[2] W. Strunk Jr., E.B. White, The Elements of Style, third ed., Macmillan, New York, 1979.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
[3] G.R. Mettam, L.B. Adams, How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: B.S. Jones, R.Z. Smith (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age, E-Publishing Inc., New York, 1999, pp. 281–304.

You must also list a minimum of 3 authors associated with a cited work before using "et al." in each of your references.

Journal abbreviations source
Journal names should be abbreviated according to
Index Medicus journal abbreviations: External link http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html;
List of serial title word abbreviations: External link http://www.issn.org/2-22661-LTWA-online.php;
CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service): External link http://www.cas.org/sent.html.

In their format for journal articles, the author's first names are initials, the first names are first before the last names, and the title of the article is provided. I did not find a similar format in the repository.
Thanks very much for any assistance.
Lmtsci
Thank you.
  • noksagt
    I did not find a similar format in the repository.
    If you'd like future style requests to be attended to quickly, you should find the most-similar style & say what needs to be changed.

    Did you look for similar styles? Because this smells quite a bit like:
    http://www.zotero.org/styles/elsevier-with-titles/dev
  • lmtsci
    Thank you so much, noksagt, for your comments and for the suggestion of a similar style. The style of elsevier with titles is quite similar to that described by Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, except for the following differences in the citation style after the title:
    Edited book
    Zotero Elsevier BBRC
    title title
    edition (numbers not words used) publisher
    publication city and state publication city, state
    publisher name publication year
    publication year pages
    pages
    There is no example of placement of an edition number in the BBRC instructions for an edited book.

    Unedited book:
    title title
    edition (numbers not words) edtion (words, not numbers)
    publication city and state publisher
    publisher publication state
    publication year publication year

    Thank you very much for any assistance in modifying the Zotero Elsevier style to match the BBRC instructions.
  • noksagt
    The place is used verbatim. There is no mechanism to give only the state, except to edit the entry in your Zotero database (and note that New York is both a city and a state & that the example entries are from publishers located in New York, New York).

    CSL-0.8 (used by the release version of Zotero 2.0) does not support "long ordinals". CSL-1.0 will. So having "3rd" instead of "third" will be possible in the future.

    Is the elsevier-with-titles style otherwise identical to your needs? If so, we can create a dependent style.
  • lmtsci
    Thank you so much for your response. I will try editing the entry in my database to reflect the city and/or state provided when necessary. It seems that the formatting in my post has changed; I typed the information in two columns, one for Zotero Elsevier and one for BBRC, to facilitate direct comparison, but the spaces between the columns were removed, and the two columns were placed adjacent to each other. I hope that was not too confusing. BBRC uses "third", and Zotero uses "3rd". Therefore, I may need to edit the database for that text as well.
    The elsevier-with-titles style is otherwise identical, it seems. I hope I have not missed any differences.
    If you create a dependent style, do you provide a link that I can select to install? Thank you again.
  • lmtsci
    To noksagt or anyone else who might help, I would like additional assistance in a hopefully minor modification of an existing message style so that it conforms to the style required for Biochemical and Biophysical Communications. Please see above discussion thread. Thanks in advance for assistance with modification and installation of the modified style.
  • noksagt
    You had stated that:
    The elsevier-with-titles style is otherwise identical, it seems
    after listing a few things that you have to change in your zotero database manually for now. What specific changes do you think need to be made to the style?
  • lmtsci
    Thank you for your response, noksagt.

    In the Zotero Elsevier style for an edited book, the sequence of information starting with the title is:
    title, edition, publication location, publisher name, year of publication, and pages.
    The BBRC style instructions for an edited book list:
    title, publisher, publication location, publication year, and pages. No example of where to place the edition is given, so I assume that using the Zotero style placement of the edition will be acceptable.

    In the Zotero style for an unedited book, the sequence is:
    title, edition (numbers not words), publication location, publisher, and year of publication.
    The BBRC style is a little different:
    title, edition (words, not numbers), publisher, publication location, year of publication.
    So the differences are minor, but real. BBRC prefers words, not numbers, apparently.

    I would really like to make as few manual adjustments to bibliography lists as possible. Thanks so much for your assistance.
  • noksagt
    I exchanged the publisher and place in the styles, which seems to be the only change you requested. This was also appropriate for all other dependent styles, so thanks for catching that. I have also created a dependent style for BBRC.
  • lmtsci
    Thank you so much, noksagt, for providing the new dependent style. I was able to use it to generate journal article citations and to create a bibliography. I have not been successful in specifying the desired text position of the bibliography created, but I will submit those questions and concerns to another thread. Again, thank you very much for your assistance.
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