How to format your references using the Bioorganic Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bioorganic 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

[1]

D.K. Gifford, Blazing pathways through genetic mountains, Science 293 (2001) 2049–2051.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

U. Tram, W. Sullivan, Role of delayed nuclear envelope breakdown and mitosis in Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility, Science 296 (2002) 1124–1126.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Jankowski, A.R.W. McKellar, K. Szalewicz, Theory untangles the high-resolution infrared spectrum of the ortho-H2-CO van der Waals complex, Science 336 (2012) 1147–1150.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Najman, M. Pringle, L. Godin, G. Oliver, Dating of the oldest continental sediments from the Himalayan foreland basin, Nature 410 (2001) 194–197.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.L. Lamattina, Devalued and Distrusted, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

G.W. Gribble, ed., Heterocyclic Scaffolds II: Reactions and Applications of Indoles, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Revathi, Y. Venkataramani, Text Independent Speaker and Emotion Independent Speech Recognition in Emotional Environment, in: J.K. Mandal, S.C. Satapathy, M. Kumar Sanyal, P.P. Sarkar, A. Mukhopadhyay (Eds.), Information Systems Design and Intelligent Applications: Proceedings of Second International Conference INDIA 2015, Volume 1, Springer India, New Delhi, 2015: pp. 43–52.

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 Bioorganic Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Designer Microbes Might Be Coming To A Gut Near You, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/designer-microbes-might-be-coming-gut-near-you/ (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, Sole-Source Contract Awards for Assembly of Radio Communication Systems, AN/GRC-142, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.L. Spruill, A correlational analysis relating organizational climate to employee performance: A case study, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2008.

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]

G.G. Gustines, A New Superhero Arrives to Protect the Powerless, New York Times (2014) C3.

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	Bioorganic Chemistry
Abbreviation	Bioorg. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0045-2068
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology Organic Chemistry Drug Discovery