How to format your references using the Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

M. Asplund, Astronomy. The shining make-up of our star, Science 322 (2008) 51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.A. Srokosz, H.L. Bryden, OCEAN CIRCULATION. Observing the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation yields a decade of inevitable surprises, Science 348 (2015) 1255575.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Pouysségur, F. Dayan, N.M. Mazure, Hypoxia signalling in cancer and approaches to enforce tumour regression, Nature 441 (2006) 437–443.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Cabantous, H.B. Nguyen, J.-D. Pedelacq, F. Koraïchi, A. Chaudhary, K. Ganguly, M.A. Lockard, G. Favre, T.C. Terwilliger, G.S. Waldo, A new protein-protein interaction sensor based on tripartite split-GFP association, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2854.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.C. McMaster, Buying and Selling Laboratory Instruments, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

R. Swartz, S. Richmond, eds., The Hazard Called Education by Joseph Agassi: Essays, Reviews, and Dialogues on Education from Forty-Five Years, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E.J. Etherington, Surrender Your Devices or Be Turned Away: Privacy Rights at the Border, in: K. Haltinner, D. Sarathchandra, J. Alves-Foss, K. Chang, D. Conte de Leon, J. Song (Eds.), Cyber Security: Second International Symposium, CSS 2015, Coeur d’Alene, ID, USA, April 7-8, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 49–56.

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 Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, The Science Behind How We Became Human, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-science-behind-how-we-became-human/ (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, Delayed-Baggage Trends and Options for Compensating Passengers, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

W.A. Watson, Middle school students’ experiences on a science museum field trip as Preparation for Future Learning, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2010.

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. Koblin, S. Maheshwari, With a ‘Roseanne’ Revival and the Backstreet Boys, ABC Mines the Past, New York Times (2017) B2.

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	Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Abbreviation	Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.
ISSN (print)	0006-291X
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Cell Biology Molecular Biology