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) Powell, K. (2003) High-tech, high society. Nature 426, 720–721.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1) Pasare, C., and Medzhitov, R. (2005) Control of B-cell responses by Toll-like receptors. Nature 438, 364–368.

A journal article with 3 authors

(1) Sato, T., Atomi, H., and Imanaka, T. (2007) Archaeal type III RuBisCOs function in a pathway for AMP metabolism. Science 315, 1003–1006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

(1) Terai, M., Izumiyama-Shimomura, N., Aida, J., Ishikawa, N., Sawabe, M., Arai, T., Fujiwara, M., Ishii, A., Nakamura, K.-I., and Takubo, K. (2013) Association of telomere shortening in myocardium with heart weight gain and cause of death. Sci. Rep. 3, 2401.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1) Sattler, K. (2005) Thermische Trennverfahren. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

(1) Zeghloul, S., Laribi, M. A., and Gazeau, J.-P. (Eds.). (2016) Robotics and Mechatronics: Proceedings of the 4th IFToMM International Symposium on Robotics and Mechatronics 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

(1) Khey, D. N., Stogner, J., and Miller, B. L. (2014) Case Studies of Emerging Drugs: Salvia, Bath Salts, and Bromo-DragonFly, in Emerging Trends in Drug Use and Distribution (Stogner, J., and Miller, B. L., Eds.), pp 53–73. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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) Fang, J. (2015, October 29) New Fossil Suggests We Had A Gibbon-Like Early Ancestor. 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. (1997) Status of Information Needed to Complete Financial Audit of the District of Columbia’s Dedicated Highway Fund for Fiscal Year 1996. 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) Nelson, A. F. (2014) Anxiety in the process of individuation. An in-depth psychological study. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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) Wagner, J. (2016, October 26) Cubs Slugger Admits He May Cry Over His Unlikely Return to Action. 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