How to format your references using the Analytical Biochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Analytical Biochemistry. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

[1]

E. Sohn, Animal models: Dogged pursuit, Nature 515 (2014) S172-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Halfar, R.M. Fujita, Ecology. Danger of deep-sea mining, Science 316 (2007) 987.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.M. Loeffler, D. Nelson, V.A. Fischetti, Rapid killing of Streptococcus pneumoniae with a bacteriophage cell wall hydrolase, Science 294 (2001) 2170–2172.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

O. Levy, L. Appelbaum, W. Leggat, Y. Gothlif, D.C. Hayward, D.J. Miller, O. Hoegh-Guldberg, Light-responsive cryptochromes from a simple multicellular animal, the coral Acropora millepora, Science 318 (2007) 467–470.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Schober, Transparent Shells, Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

E. Garrett-Mayer, ed., Principles of Anticancer Drug Development, Springer, New York, NY, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R.J. Brezski, J.G. Monroe, BCR-linked Factors in Developmental Fate Decisions, in: S. Gupta, F. Alt, M. Cooper, F. Melchers, K. Rajewsky (Eds.), Mechanisms of Lymphocyte Activation and Immune Regulation XI: B Cell Biology, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2007: pp. 47–55.

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 Analytical Biochemistry.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Ancient Temples Reveal Earthquake History, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/ancient-temples-reveal-earthquake-history/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Guaranteed Student Loans: Lenders’ Interest Billings Often Result in Overpayments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. Gillespie, Trust in Leadership: Investigation of Andragogical Learning and Implications for Student Placement Outcomes, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2014.

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

[1]

J. Wagner, Victory for Morale Precedes an Actual Loss, New York Times (2017) SP8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Analytical Biochemistry
Abbreviation	Anal. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	0003-2697
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Cell Biology Molecular Biology