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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Bolfan-Casanova, N. Geochemistry. Fuel for Plate Tectonics. Science 2007, 315 (5810), 338–339.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Usherwood, J. R.; Wilson, A. M. Biomechanics: No Force Limit on Greyhound Sprint Speed. Nature 2005, 438 (7069), 753–754.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Munoz, F.; Couteron, P.; Hubbell, S. P. Comment on “Global Correlations in Tropical Tree Species Richness and Abundance Reject Neutrality.” Science 2012, 336 (6089), 1639; author reply 1639.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Trocha, P.; Karpov, M.; Ganin, D.; Pfeiffer, M. H. P.; Kordts, A.; Wolf, S.; Krockenberger, J.; Marin-Palomo, P.; Weimann, C.; Randel, S.; Freude, W.; Kippenberg, T. J.; Koos, C. Ultrafast Optical Ranging Using Microresonator Soliton Frequency Combs. Science 2018, 359 (6378), 887–891.

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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Liebhart, R.; Chandramouli, D.; Wong, C.; Merkel, J. LTE for Public Safety; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

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Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence: 5th International Conference, PReMI 2013, Kolkata, India, December 10-14, 2013. Proceedings; Maji, P., Ghosh, A., Murty, M. N., Ghosh, K., Pal, S. K., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; Vol. 8251.

A chapter in an edited book

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Khalaf, K.; Vidojkovic, V.; Wambacq, P.; Long, J. R. Layout and Post-Layout Simulations. In Data Transmission at Millimeter Waves: Exploiting the 60 GHz Band on Silicon; Vidojkovic, V., Wambacq, P., Long, J. R., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015; pp 95–101.

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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Luntz, S. World’s Most Accurate Clock Loses Just 1 Second Every 16 Billion Years. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/worlds-most-accurate-clocks-unveiled/ (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. Airline Competition: Industry Competitive and Financial Problems; T-RCED-92-28; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1992.

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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Nawpar, R. T. Uranyl Glass for Thermometry. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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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Dorman, J. L. Hot Steaks With a Cool Vibe. New York Times. November 11, 2016, p TR11.

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