How to format your references using the Biochemical Society Transactions citation style

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

Amzica, F. (2010) Comment on “The human K-complex represents an isolated cortical down-state.” Science 330, 35; author reply 35

A journal article with 2 authors

Allen, D. and Westerblad, H. (2004) Physiology. Lactic acid--the latest performance-enhancing drug. Science 305, 1112–1113

A journal article with 3 authors

Swan, A., Cockerill, M. and Sipp, D. (2013) Advocacy: How to hasten open access. Nature 495, 442–443

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wong, K.-K., Maser, R.S., Bachoo, R.M., Menon, J., Carrasco, D.R., Gu, Y., et al. (2003) Telomere dysfunction and Atm deficiency compromises organ homeostasis and accelerates ageing. Nature 421, 643–648

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jakubith, M. (1998) Grundoperationen und chemische Reaktionstechnik. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 1998.

An edited book

Gu, Q., Hell, P. and Yang, B., editors (2014) Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management: 10th International Conference, AAIM 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 8-11, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

ten Donkelaar, H.J. and Vermeij-Keers, C. (2006) The Neural Crest and Craniofacial Malformations. In: Lammens, M. and Hori, A., editorsClinical Neuroembryology: Development and Developmental Disorders of the Human Central Nervous System. . Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. . p. 191–228.

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 Society Transactions.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016) Every Single Polar Bear Population In The Arctic Faces Unprecedented Habitat Loss. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/every-single-polar-bear-population-arctic-faces-unprecedented-habitat-loss/

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 (1990) Follow-up National Survey of Cable Television Rates and Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shakya, M. (2017) Planter Boxes and Rain Gardens for Urban Stormwater Management: Performance of Extended Field Application

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

Hubbard, B. (2017) Fitness Classes for Saudi Arabia’s Girls. New York Times. A7

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 Society Transactions
Abbreviation	Biochem. Soc. Trans.
ISSN (print)	0300-5127
ISSN (online)	1470-8752
Scope	Biochemistry