How to format your references using the Biochimie Open citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biochimie Open. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

T. Reichhardt, NASA: trawling through the wreckage, Nature. 426 (2003) 754–755.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E.P. Mimitou, L.S. Symington, Sae2, Exo1 and Sgs1 collaborate in DNA double-strand break processing, Nature. 455 (2008) 770–774.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.A. Kaminski, V.M. Sloutsky, A.F. Heckler, Learning theory. The advantage of abstract examples in learning math, Science. 320 (2008) 454–455.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Komiyama, O. Astafiev, V. Antonov V., T. Kutsuwa, H. Hirai, A single-photon detector in the far-infrared range, Nature. 403 (2000) 405–407.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Boussabaine, Risk Pricing Strategies for Public-Private Partnerships Projects, John Wiley & Sons, Oxford, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

J. Natarajan, Pro T-SQL 2012 Programmer’s Guide, Third Edition, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Lu, Y.-W. Mai, Y.-G. Shen, The Origin of Superhardness in Nanocomposite Coatings: Analysis of Nanoindentation and Scratch Tests, in: Y.L. Bai, Q.S. Zheng, Y.G. Wei (Eds.), IUTAM Symposium on Mechanical Behavior and Micro-Mechanics of Nanostructured Materials: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium Held in Beijing, China, June 27–30, 2005, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007: pp. 39–49.

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 Open.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Russia Loses Control Of Gecko Sex Satellite, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/russia-loses-control-gecko-sex-satellite/ (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, Bureau of Indian Education: Improving Interior’s Assistance Would Aid Tribal Groups Developing Academic Accountability Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Darko-Mensah, Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to Measure the Online Outsourcing Efficiency of Sub-Saharan African Countries, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2019.

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]

L. Greenhouse, As to the Direction of the Roberts Court: The Jury Is Still Out, New York Times. (2007) A15.

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 Open
Abbreviation	Biochim. Open
ISSN (print)	2214-0085
Scope	Biochemistry