How to format your references using the Biochimie citation style

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

J.W. Chin, Journal club. A molecular biologist gets excited about making designer proteins in cells, Nature 457 (2009) 239.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.I. Bloch, D.M. Boyer, Grasping primate origins, Science 298 (2002) 1606–1610.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B.-E. Saether, S. Engen, E. Matthysen, Demographic characteristics and population dynamical patterns of solitary birds, Science 295 (2002) 2070–2073.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.C. Arthur, R.Z. Gharaibeh, J.M. Uronis, E. Perez-Chanona, W. Sha, S. Tomkovich, M. Mühlbauer, A.A. Fodor, C. Jobin, VSL#3 probiotic modifies mucosal microbial composition but does not reduce colitis-associated colorectal cancer, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2868.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Stanoyevitch, Introduction to Numerical Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations Using MATLAB®, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

S. Hougardy, Algorithmic Mathematics, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.-L. Kapsch, H. Eicken, M. Robards, Sea Ice Distribution and Ice Use by Indigenous Walrus Hunters on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, in: I. Krupnik, C. Aporta, S. Gearheard, G.J. Laidler, L. Kielsen Holm (Eds.), SIKU: Knowing Our Ice: Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010: pp. 115–144.

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 Biochimie.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Rising Seas Could Drown Turtle Eggs: New Research, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rising-seas-could-drown-turtle-eggs-new-research/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Information Technology: Agencies Need to Improve Their Application Inventories to Achieve Additional Savings, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Manandhar, Synthesis and Characterization of Some Novel Dinitrosyl Diphosphine Iron Complexes, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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]

S.K. (nyt), World Briefing | Europe: Belarus: Europe Mission Chief Departs, New York Times (2002) A10.

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	Biochimie
Abbreviation	Biochimie
ISSN (print)	0300-9084
Scope	Biochemistry General Medicine