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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Théry C. 2015. Cancer: Diagnosis by extracellular vesicles. Nature. 523(7559):161–62
A journal article with 2 authors
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Beveridge C, Morris S. 2007. Order of merit. Nature. 448(7152):508
A journal article with 3 authors
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Frank F, Sonenberg N, Nagar B. 2010. Structural basis for 5’-nucleotide base-specific recognition of guide RNA by human AGO2. Nature. 465(7299):818–22
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Xin L, Liu Y, Li B, Zhou X, Shen H, et al. 2014. Constructing hierarchical submicrotubes from interconnected TiO₂ nanocrystals for high reversible capacity and long-life lithium-ion batteries. Sci. Rep. 4:4479

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Goodman AH. 2012. Rehabilitating and Resettling Offenders in the Community. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
An edited book
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Zschocke J, Baumgartner M, Morava E, Patterson M, Rahman S, Peters V, eds. 2015. JIMD Reports, Volume 24, Vol. 24. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. VI, 128 p. 30 illus., 10 illus. in color p.
A chapter in an edited book
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Tsioufis CP. 2015. Echocardiographic Assessment of the Aorta and Coronary Arteries in Hypertensive Patients. In Assessment of Preclinical Organ Damage in Hypertension, ed E Agabiti Rosei, G Mancia, pp. 51–62. Cham: Springer International Publishing

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
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Andrews R. 2015. GM Tomatoes Contain 50 Red Wine Bottles’ Worth Of Resveratrol. 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
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Government Accountability Office. 2003. Distance Education: More Data Could Improve Education’s Ability to Track Technology at Minority Serving Institutions. GAO-03-900, 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
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Kwon Y. 2009. Extreme value estimators: Their long memory feature and forecasting performances in the U.S. stock indexes. Doctoral dissertation thesis. George Washington 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
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Crow K. 2002. Cathedral Needs Alms In the Wake of Calamity. New York Times, May 12, p. 147

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 titleAnnual Review of Biochemistry
AbbreviationAnnu. Rev. Biochem.
ISSN (print)0066-4154
ISSN (online)1545-4509
ScopeBiochemistry

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