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]

J. Kling, The flaw is human, Nature 406 (2000) 941.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

V. Vance, H. Vaucheret, RNA silencing in plants--defense and counterdefense, Science 292 (2001) 2277–2280.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.C. Stager, J.J. Day, S. Santini, Comment on “Origin of the superflock of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, East Africa,” Science 304 (2004) 963; author reply 963.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Mayer, A. Niveleau, J. Walter, R. Fundele, T. Haaf, Demethylation of the zygotic paternal genome, Nature 403 (2000) 501–502.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Castillo, A. Cobo, F. Jubete, R.E. Pruneda, Orthogonal Sets and Polar Methods in Linear Algebra, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 1999.

An edited book

[1]

D. Brown, Justice Reinvestment: Winding Back Imprisonment, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

W. Lu, C. Zhan, H. Hou, Targeted Liposomes and Micelles as Carriers for Cancer Therapy, in: M.J. Alonso, M. Garcia-Fuentes (Eds.), Nano-Oncologicals: New Targeting and Delivery Approaches, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 95–122.

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]

B. Taub, Scientists May Have Discovered The Neural Source Of Consciousness, IFLScience (2016).

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, Automated Medical Records: Leadership Needed to Expedite Standards Development, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.G. Makovec, A study of the factors predicting attrition and contributing to the attrition rate of high school teachers in Hampton Roads, Virginia, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2008.

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]

N. MacFARQUHAR, Russia Charges Minister in an Oil Bribery Scandal, New York Times (2016) A10.

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