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]

Q.D. Atkinson, Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa, Science 332 (2011) 346–349.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Rickman, W.A. Bickmore, Transcription. Flashing a light on the spatial organization of transcription, Science 341 (2013) 621–622.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Iwata, A. Hiyama, J.M. Otaki, System-dependent regulations of colour-pattern development: a mutagenesis study of the pale grass blue butterfly, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2379.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.J. Walther, J.-U. Peter, S. Bashammakh, H. Hörtnagl, M. Voits, H. Fink, M. Bader, Synthesis of serotonin by a second tryptophan hydroxylase isoform, Science 299 (2003) 76.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B.C. Dimond, Legal Aspects of Radiography and Radiology, Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

D. Bressoud, Teaching and Learning of Calculus, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Q. Chen, M. Hsu, Data Stream Analytics as Cloud Service for Mobile Applications, in: R. Meersman, T. Dillon, P. Herrero (Eds.), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, OTM 2010: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, IS, DOA and ODBASE, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, October 25-29, 2010, Proceedings, Part II, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 709–726.

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]

T. Hale, Fish Caught Mid-Eating Another Fish Becomes Frozen Solid In Ice, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fish-caught-mideating-another-fish-becomes-frozen-solid-in-ice/ (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, Problems Found With Government Acquisition and Use of Computers From November 1965 to December 1976, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Razzaghi, Quantum Tunneling in Hydride Transfer Reactions in Solution, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2013.

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]

R. Kelly, QUOTATION OF THE DAY, New York Times (2008) A3.

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