How to format your references using the Biochemical Journal citation style

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

Wykes, T. (2010) Cognitive remediation therapy needs funding. Nature 468, 165–166

A journal article with 2 authors

Bradshaw, H. D. and Schemske, D. W. (2003) Allele substitution at a flower colour locus produces a pollinator shift in monkeyflowers. Nature 426, 176–178

A journal article with 3 authors

Royer, D. L., Berner, R. A. and Park, J. (2007) Climate sensitivity constrained by CO2 concentrations over the past 420 million years. Nature 446, 530–532

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Soden, B. J., Wetherald, R. T., Stenchikov, G. L. and Robock, A. (2002) Global cooling after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo: a test of climate feedback by water vapor. Science 296, 727–730

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwartz, R. A., Carew, M. G. and Maksimenko, T. (2010) Micro Markets, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Smeets, B. (2008) Beginning Google Web Toolkit: From Novice to Professional (Boness, U., and Bankras, R., eds.), Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Mohebbi, B., Abbasidoust, F., Ettefagh, M. M. and Biglari, H. (2013) Delamination Diagnosis in Composite Beam Using AIS and BGA Algorithms Based on Vibration Characteristics. In Optimization of Structures and Components (Muñoz-Rojas, P. A., ed.), pp 73–89, Springer International Publishing, Cham

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 Journal.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, May 16) Researchers Exploring Egyptian Cemetery Stumble Across Astonishing Find. IFLScience, IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/catacombs-full-mummies-uncovered-massive-eegyptian-necropolis/

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. (1988) Reports Issued in June 1988, 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

Schroder, G. L. (2015) A quantitative study of critical thinking skills in bachelors of science nursing program students, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ

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

Lyall, S. (2014, January 25) Olympic Fears Rattle Athletes and Families. New York Times

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 Journal
Abbreviation	Biochem. J.
ISSN (print)	0264-6021
ISSN (online)	1470-8728
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Molecular Biology