How to format your references using the Bioconjugate Chemistry citation style

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

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Corbyn, Z. Statistics: A Growing Global Burden. Nature 2014, 510 (7506), S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Cande, S. C.; Stegman, D. R. Indian and African Plate Motions Driven by the Push Force of the Réunion Plume Head. Nature 2011, 475 (7354), 47–52.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Gerber, L. R.; Hyrenbach, K. D.; Zacharias, M. A. Ecology. Do the Largest Protected Areas Conserve Whales or Whalers? Science 2005, 307 (5709), 525–526.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Wang, Y.-K.; Sheng, G.-P.; Shi, B.-J.; Li, W.-W.; Yu, H.-Q. A Novel Electrochemical Membrane Bioreactor as a Potential Net Energy Producer for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1864.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Pratt, T. H. Electrostatic Ignitions of Fires and Explosions; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

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Cellular Respiration and Carcinogenesis; Sarangarajan, R., Apte, S., Eds.; Humana Press: Totowa, NJ, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

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Arya, K. Managing Microsoft Office with Group Policy. In Windows Group Policy Troubleshooting: A Best Practice Guide for Managing Users and PCs Through Group Policy; Bettany, A., Ed.; Apress: Berkeley, CA, 2016; pp 105–128.

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 Bioconjugate Chemistry.

Blog post

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Andrews, R. Physicists Forge Impossible Molecule That Chemists Failed To Make. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/physicists-forge-impossible-molecule-chemists-failed-make/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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

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Government Accountability Office. America COMPETES Act: It Is Too Early to Evaluate Programs Long-Term Effectiveness, but Agencies Could Improve Reporting of High-Risk, High-Reward Research Priorities; GAO-11-127R; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Brown, M. H. An Examination of Executive Function, Stress, and Adolescent Attachment to Caregivers in a Social Neuroscience Model Using the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD). Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2014.

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

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Poniewozik, J. Chatter, in Hopes of Preventing Splatter. New York Times. October 12, 2017, p C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Bioconjugate Chemistry
Abbreviation	Bioconjug. Chem.
ISSN (print)	1043-1802
ISSN (online)	1520-4812
Scope	Biotechnology Bioengineering Organic Chemistry Biomedical Engineering Pharmaceutical Science Pharmacology