How to format your references using the Annual Review of Biochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of 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

Blaxter M. 2010. Genetics. Revealing the dark matter of the genome. Science. 330(6012):1758–59

A journal article with 2 authors

Nilsson J, Payne DN. 2011. Physics. High-power fiber lasers. Science. 332(6032):921–22

A journal article with 3 authors

Achlioptas D, Naor A, Peres Y. 2005. Rigorous location of phase transitions in hard optimization problems. Nature. 435(7043):759–64

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gómez MI, Barrett CB, Buck LE, De Groote H, Ferris S, et al. 2011. Agriculture. Research principles for developing country food value chains. Science. 332(6034):1154–55

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vaughan D, Robinson N, Lucas N, Arulkumaran S. 2010. Handbook of Obstetric High Dependency Care. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell

An edited book

Johnson H. 2008. Violence Against Women: An International Perspective. New York, NY: Springer. XIV, 288 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Hornberger K. 2009. Introduction to Decoherence Theory. In Entanglement and Decoherence: Foundations and Modern Trends, ed A Buchleitner, C Viviescas, M Tiersch, pp. 221–76. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Annual Review of Biochemistry.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Teens Invent Condoms That Change Color When They Detect STDs. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2000. Port Infrastructure: Financing of Navigation Projects at Small and Medium-Sized Ports. RCED-00-58, 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

Hongxia D. 2005. Social Process of Environmental Risk Perception, Preferences of Risk Management and Public Participation in Decision Making: A Cross-Cultural Study Between the United States and China. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Ohio State University

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

Vecsey G. 2010. Football Coaches Find Stress And Satisfaction. New York Times, Sep. 25, p. D1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Annual Review of Biochemistry
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	0066-4154
ISSN (online)	1545-4509
Scope	Biochemistry