How to format your references using the Biochemical Genetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biochemical Genetics. 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

Weaver RL (2005) Geophysics. Information from seismic noise. Science 307:1568–1569

A journal article with 2 authors

Zheng J, Jia Z (2013) Structural biology: tiny enzyme uses context to succeed. Nature 497:445–446

A journal article with 3 authors

Rand DG, Greene JD, Nowak MA (2012) Spontaneous giving and calculated greed. Nature 489:427–430

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hagai T, Chen X, Miragaia RJ, et al (2018) Gene expression variability across cells and species shapes innate immunity. Nature 563:197–202

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stacey WM (2010) Fusion. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Gera R, Hedetniemi S, Larson C (eds) (2016) Graph Theory: Favorite Conjectures and Open Problems - 1. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Frantzeskaki N, Tefrati N (2016) A Transformative Vision Unlocks the Innovative Potential of Aberdeen City, UK. In: Loorbach D, Wittmayer JM, Shiroyama H, et al. (eds) Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions: European and Asian Experiences. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 49–68

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 Genetics.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Why Do Galaxies Stop Forming Stars? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-do-galaxies-stop-forming-stars/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1998) Aviation Security: Implementation of Recommendations Is Under Way, but Completion Will Take Several Years. 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

Constantine S (2013) Supportive services for transitional and emancipated youth: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Loomis G (2013) Bringing Fresh Interpretations to Vintage Verdi and Handel. New York Times 0

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Weaver 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Weaver 2005; Zheng and Jia 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Zheng and Jia 2013)
Three or more authors: (Hagai et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biochemical Genetics
Abbreviation	Biochem. Genet.
ISSN (print)	0006-2928
ISSN (online)	1573-4927
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Biochemistry Genetics Molecular Biology General Medicine