How to format your references using the Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 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]

L.F. Landweber, Genetics. Why genomes in pieces?, Science 318 (2007) 405–407.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Kahane, N. Shackel, Do abnormal responses show utilitarian bias?, Nature 452 (2008) E5; author reply E5-6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Alarousu, A. AlSaggaf, G.E. Jabbour, Online monitoring of printed electronics by Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1562.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T.K. Lowenstein, M.N. Timofeeff, S.T. Brennan, L.A. Hardie, R.V. Demicco, Oscillations in Phanerozoic seawater chemistry: evidence from fluid inclusions, Science 294 (2001) 1086–1088.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Reid, Dyslexia, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Y. Fernandez-Jalvo, Atlas of Taphonomic Identifications: 1001+ Images of Fossil and Recent Mammal Bone Modification, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V.A. Rincon-Florez, L.C. Carvalhais, Y.P. Dang, P.M. Schenk, Soil Microbial Community Interactions Under Tillage Systems in Australia, in: K.R. Hakeem, M.S. Akhtar, S.N.A. Abdullah (Eds.), Plant, Soil and Microbes: Volume 1: Implications in Crop Science, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 93–102.

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 Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, What Mongol History Predicts For The New Season Of Game of Thrones, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/what-mongol-history-predicts-new-season-game-thrones/ (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, General Accounting Office Reviews of Federal Environmental Research and Development, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.B. Gowetski, Manipulation of DNA topology using an artificial DNA-looping protein, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2012.

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]

M.P. Lowry, Watching Assumptions Walk Out the Door, New York Times (2015) BU7.

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	Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Abbreviation	Arch. Biochem. Biophys.
ISSN (print)	0003-9861
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Molecular Biology