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]

S.L. McKnight, On getting there from here, Science. 330 (2010) 1338–1339.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H.J. Spero, D.W. Lea, The cause of carbon isotope minimum events on glacial terminations, Science. 296 (2002) 522–525.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Tanjeem, T. Kawazoe, T. Yatsui, CO2 phonon mode renormalization using phonon-assisted energy up-conversion, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3341.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Roche, S. Bressanelli, F.A. Rey, Y. Gaudin, Crystal structure of the low-pH form of the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein G, Science. 313 (2006) 187–191.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L.A. Glasgow, Applied Mathematics for Science and Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

T. Harrison, ed., Financial Literacy and the Limits of Financial Decision-Making, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Acet, M. Spasova, A. Elsukova, Diffusion Enhancement in FePt Nanoparticles for L1 $₀$ Stability, in: A. Lorke, M. Winterer, R. Schmechel, C. Schulz (Eds.), Nanoparticles from the Gasphase: Formation, Structure, Properties, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 123–138.

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, The World’s New Sustainable Development Goals, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/world-s-new-sustainable-development-goals/ (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: Update on VA Actions to Implement Critical Reforms, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Cordova, The impact of a teacher training program on student engagement, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

C. Kelly, Focused on Steering A Dinghy to Sydney, New York Times. (1999) 812.

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