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

Schopper H (2006) Islam and science: where are the new patrons of science? Nature 444:35–36

A journal article with 2 authors

Pimm SL, van Aarde RJ (2001) African elephants and contraception. Nature 411:766

A journal article with 3 authors

Carazo-Salas RE, Antony C, Nurse P (2005) The kinesin Klp2 mediates polarization of interphase microtubules in fission yeast. Science 309:297–300

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhao C, Sun G, Ye P, et al (2013) MicroRNA let-7d regulates the TLX/microRNA-9 cascade to control neural cell fate and neurogenesis. Sci Rep 3:1329

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adhikari SK (2005) Variational Principles and the Numerical Solution of Scattering Problems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Boavida F, Monteiro E, Mascolo S, Koucheryavy Y (eds) (2007) Wired/Wireless Internet Communications: 5th International Conference, WWIC 2007, Coimbra, Portugal, May 23-25, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Giere RN (2011) History and Philosophy of Science: Thirty-Five Years Later. In: Mauskopf S, Schmaltz T (eds) Integrating History and Philosophy of Science: Problems and Prospects. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 59–65

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

Davis J (2016) Portugal Powered For Four Days Straight Entirely By Renewable Energy. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/portugal-powered-four-days-straight-entirely-renewable-energy/. 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 (2014) Nanomanufacturing and U.S. Competitiveness: Challenges and Opportunities. 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

Lee Y-J (2010) Copying and summarizing: Possible tools to develop English reading and writing for university students of different proficiency levels in Korea. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Alexander K (2008) Fry, Baby. New York Times MM77

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schopper 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Pimm and van Aarde 2001; Schopper 2006).

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

Two authors: (Pimm and van Aarde 2001)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al. 2013)

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