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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Solis, M. (2014) Prevention: Before the break. Nature 508, S12-3
A journal article with 2 authors
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Olson, M.V. and Varki, A. (2004) Genomics. The chimpanzee genome--a bittersweet celebration. Science 305, 191–192
A journal article with 3 authors
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Wessling, M., Morcillo, L.G. and Abdu, S. (2014) Nanometer-thick lateral polyelectrolyte micropatterns induce macrosopic electro-osmotic chaotic fluid instabilities. Sci. Rep. 4, 4294
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Liao, H.-I., Wu, D.-A., Halelamien, N. and Shimojo, S. (2013) Cortical stimulation consolidates and reactivates visual experience: neural plasticity from magnetic entrainment of visual activity. Sci. Rep. 3, 2228

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Rodriguez, J. and Bonne, D. (2015) Stereoselective Multiple Bond-Forming Transformations in Organic Synthesis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.
An edited book
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Leikin, M., Schwartz, M. and Tobin, Y., editors (2012) Current Issues in Bilingualism: Cognitive and Socio-linguistic Perspectives. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.
A chapter in an edited book
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Boller, T. (2012) Experimental Evidence of a Role for RLKs in Innate Immunity. In: Tax, F. and Kemmerling, B., editorsReceptor-like Kinases in Plants: From Development to Defense. . Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. . p. 67–77.

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
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Andrew, E. (2014) Should Dying Patients Have The Right To Access Experimental Treatments? IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/should-dying-patients-have-right-access-experimental-treatments/

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
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Government Accountability Office (1998) Information Technology: Department of Energy Does Not Effectively Manage Its Supercomputers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

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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Salam, S. (2017) Interplay between Fines Content and Strength Characteristics of CA 6 and CA 2 Crushed Limestone Aggregate

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
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Vecsey, G. (2011) A Thick Résumé for a Tough Job. New York Times. D6

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 titleBiochemical Society Transactions
AbbreviationBiochem. Soc. Trans.
ISSN (print)0300-5127
ISSN (online)1470-8752
ScopeBiochemistry

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