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]

K. Moskvitch, Astronomy: To catch a cosmic ray, Nature 514 (2014) 20–22.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Watanabe, H. Noji, Characterization of the temperature-sensitive reaction of F1-ATPase by using single-molecule manipulation, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4962.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Hasnaoui, H. Van Swygenhoven, P.M. Derlet, Dimples on nanocrystalline fracture surfaces as evidence for shear plane formation, Science 300 (2003) 1550–1552.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Feng, H. Chen, Y. Liu, Z. Huang, X. Sun, L. Zhou, X. Lu, Q. Gao, A novel vitreous substitute of using a foldable capsular vitreous body injected with polyvinylalcohol hydrogel, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1838.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.-P. Dal Pont, C. Azzaro-Pantel, New Approaches to the Process Industries, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

N. García-Pedrajas, F. Herrera, C. Fyfe, J.M. Benítez, M. Ali, eds., Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems: 23rd International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2010, Cordoba, Spain, June 1-4, 2010, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.J. Alferes, F. Banti, A. Brogi, An Event-Condition-Action Logic Programming Language, in: M. Fisher, W. van der Hoek, B. Konev, A. Lisitsa (Eds.), Logics in Artificial Intelligence: 10th European Conference, JELIA 2006 Liverpool, UK, September 13-15, 2006 Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 29–42.

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]

D. Andrew, Why The Hell Is This Pig’s Flesh Bright Blue?!, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wild-pig-stained-blue-inside/ (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, Airline Competition: Industry Competitive and Financial Problems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Hufnagel, Search for the Cabibbo-Supressed D+ Meson Decays D+ → π+π 0 and D+ → K+ π0, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2005.

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]

M.S. Feldstein, T. Halstead, N. Gregory Mankiw, A Conservative Case for Climate Action, New York Times (2017) A25.

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