How to format your references using the Biochemistry citation style

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

(1) Speakman, J. R. (2010) FTO effect on energy demand versus food intake. Nature 464, E1; discussion E2.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1) Powrie, F., and Maloy, K. J. (2003) Immunology. Regulating the regulators. Science 299, 1030–1031.

A journal article with 3 authors

(1) Ji, Z., Gao, H., and Yu, H. (2015) CELL DIVISION CYCLE. Kinetochore attachment sensed by competitive Mps1 and microtubule binding to Ndc80C. Science 348, 1260–1264.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

(1) Kudo, K., Iba, K., Takasuga, M., Kitahama, Y., Matsumura, J.-I., Danura, M., Nogami, Y., and Nohara, M. (2013) Emergence of superconductivity at 45 K by lanthanum and phosphorus co-doping of CaFe₂As₂. Sci. Rep. 3, 1478.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1) Levitin, V. (2005) High Temperature Strain of Metals and Alloys. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

(1) Amblard, F., Miguel, F. J., Blanchet, A., and Gaudou, B. (Eds.). (2015) Advances in Artificial Economics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

(1) Belkadi, F., Bosch-Mauchand, M., Kibamba, Y., Le Duigou, J., and Eynard, B. (2012) Functional Architecture and Specifications for Tolerancing Data and Knowledge Management, in Product Lifecycle Management. Towards Knowledge-Rich Enterprises: IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2012, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 9-11, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (Rivest, L., Bouras, A., and Louhichi, B., Eds.), pp 35–45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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.

Blog post

(1) Andrew, E. (2014, June 9) What Do Eye Stitches Look Like? IFLScience. IFLScience.

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

(1) Government Accountability Office. (1998) Aviation Security: Implementation of Recommendations Is Under Way, but Completion Will Take Several Years. 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

(1) Huff, H. K. (2013) Thumb Twiddle Glossolalia: The Soumage. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

(1) Walsh, M. W. (2012, December 5) Conflict Is Issue In a Pension Suit. New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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
Abbreviation	Biochemistry
ISSN (print)	0006-2960
ISSN (online)	1520-4995
Scope	Biochemistry