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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

H. Eichenbaum, Neuroscience. Dedicated to memory?, Science 330 (2010) 1331–1332.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.N. Moore, S.F. Simmons, Geophysics. More power from below, Science 340 (2013) 933–934.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G.T. Burstein, I.M. Hutchings, K. Sasaki, Electrochemically induced annealing of stainless-steel surfaces, Nature 407 (2000) 885–887.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Z. Zheng, W. Xie, Z.S. Lim, L. You, J. Wang, CdS sensitized 3D hierarchical TiO2/ZnO heterostructure for efficient solar energy conversion, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5721.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. McBee, Mastering Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 SP1, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

A. Lemmi, G. Betti, eds., Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Bangerter, J. Camenisch, A. Lysyanskaya, A Cryptographic Framework for the Controlled Release of Certified Data, in: B. Christianson, B. Crispo, J.A. Malcolm, M. Roe (Eds.), Security Protocols: 12th International Workshop, Cambridge, UK, April 26-28, 2004. Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 20–42.

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

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E. Andrew, The Number Of Chimpanzees Used In Biomedical Research Is Declining, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/number-chimpanzees-used-biomedical-research-declining/ (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, No Child Left Behind Act: Enhancements in the Department of Education’s Review Process Could Improve State Academic Assessments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

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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A.A. Sikorsky, Concentration enhancement and device fabrication for the improved performance of gradient elution moving boundary electrophoresis, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2014.

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]

S.K. (nyt), World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Foreign Interference Condemned, New York Times (2005) A6.

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