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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education (BAMBED). 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

M. A. Rubin Tech.Sight. Understanding disease cell by cell. (2002) Science. 296, 1329–1330.

A journal article with 2 authors

R. Vafabakhsh, T. Ha Extreme bendability of DNA less than 100 base pairs long revealed by single-molecule cyclization. (2012) Science. 337, 1097–1101.

A journal article with 3 authors

Z. Lu, A. M. Klem, Y. Ramu Ion conduction pore is conserved among potassium channels. (2001) Nature. 413, 809–813.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

J. X. Kang, J. Wang, L. Wu, Z. B. Kang Transgenic mice: fat-1 mice convert n-6 to n-3 fatty acids. (2004) Nature. 427, 504.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

E. M. Smith (2006) Advances in Thermal Design of Heat Exchangers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

R. Feng, W.-S. Lee, Y. Sato, Eds. (2014) Computer Mathematics: 9th Asian Symposium (ASCM2009), Fukuoka, December 2009, 10th Asian Symposium (ASCM2012), Beijing, October 2012, Contributed Papers and Invited Talks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

W. M. P. van der Aalst in S. Haddad, L. Pomello (Eds.) (2012) Application and Theory of Petri Nets: 33rd International Conference, PETRI NETS 2012, Hamburg, Germany, June 25-29, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 72–91.

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 Molecular Biology Education.

Blog post

R. Andrews Nat Geo’s Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 Contest Winners Capture Breathtaking Images Of Our World 2016 IFLScience Accessed on 30 October 2018. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/nat-geos-travel-photographer-of-the-year-2016-contest-winners-capture-breathtaking-images-of-our-world/.

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 (2012) DISH Network Complied with the Court-Appointed Special Master’s Examination of Its Compliance with the Section 119 Statutory License. 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

P. R. Tomko (2012) Understanding the factors affecting the influence of children on their parents’ total purchases, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2012.

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

M. L. Dudziak The Global March on Washington. (2013) New York Times. A27.

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	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education
Abbreviation	Biochem. Mol. Biol. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1470-8175
ISSN (online)	1539-3429
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology