How to format your references using the Biochemistry and Cell Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 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

Koenig, R. 2000. IRANIAN SCIENCE: Earthquake Researchers Prepare for the Next Big One. Science 290(5496): 1486.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phan, R.T., and Dalla-Favera, R. 2004. The BCL6 proto-oncogene suppresses p53 expression in germinal-centre B cells. Nature 432(7017): 635–639.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shen, B., Makley, D.M., and Johnston, J.N. 2010. Umpolung reactivity in amide and peptide synthesis. Nature 465(7301): 1027–1032.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hanaguri, T., Kohsaka, Y., Ono, M., Maltseva, M., Coleman, P., Yamada, I., Azuma, M., Takano, M., Ohishi, K., and Takagi, H. 2009. Coherence factors in a high-tc cuprate probed by quasi-particle scattering off vortices. Science 323(5916): 923–926.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hunter, D.A. 2009. A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Han, W., Migórski, S., and Sofonea, M. (Editors). 2015. Advances in Variational and Hemivariational Inequalities: Theory, Numerical Analysis, and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Praussello, F. 2015. The Impact of the Eurozone Crisis on a Periphery Country: The Case of Italy. In Societies in Transition: Economic, Political and Security Transformations in Contemporary Europe. Edited by S. Katsikides and P.I. Koktsidis. Springer International Publishing, Cham. pp. 57–86.

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 Biochemistry and Cell Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014, January 21. Milky Way galaxy likely formed inside out. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/space/milky-way-galaxy-likely-formed-inside-out/ [accessed 30 October 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. 1988. Technology Selection at INS Needs Improvement. 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

Marchek, S.P. 2015. A quantitative investigation of the Technology Obsolescence Model (TOM) factors that influence the decision to replace obsolete systems. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Wagner, J. 2016, November 5. Hot Stove Warms Up: Cespedes Opts Out of Deal. New York Times: SP2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koenig 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Koenig 2000; Phan and Dalla-Favera 2004).

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

Two authors: (Phan and Dalla-Favera 2004)
Three or more authors: (Hanaguri et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Abbreviation	Biochem. Cell Biol.
ISSN (print)	0829-8211
ISSN (online)	1208-6002
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Molecular Biology