How to format your references using the Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics. 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

White, T. W. (2002). Unique and redundant connexin contributions to lens development. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5553), 319–320.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruskov, R., & Tahan, C. (2014). Quantum Processing. Catching the quantum sound wave. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6206), 165–166.

A journal article with 3 authors

Benham-Pyle, B. W., Pruitt, B. L., & Nelson, W. J. (2015). Cell adhesion. Mechanical strain induces E-cadherin-dependent Yap1 and β-catenin activation to drive cell cycle entry. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6238), 1024–1027.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pan, J. W., Simon, C., Brukner, C., & Zeilinger, A. (2001). Entanglement purification for quantum communication. Nature, 410(6832), 1067–1070.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hellesland, J., Challamel, N., Casandjian, C., & Lanos, C. (2013). Reinforced Concrete Beams, Columns and Frames. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wang, J., & Xie, X. (Eds.). (2009). Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Heart: From Bench to Bedside. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Beheshti, S.-M.-R., Benatallah, B., Sakr, S., Grigori, D., Motahari-Nezhad, H. R., Barukh, M. C., … Ryu, S. H. (2016). Business Process Data Analysis. In B. Benatallah, S. Sakr, D. Grigori, H. R. Motahari-Nezhad, M. C. Barukh, A. Gater, & S. H. Ryu (Eds.), Process Analytics: Concepts and Techniques for Querying and Analyzing Process Data (pp. 107–134). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, February 14). Sleep Debt Shows Up in Your Blood. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sleep-debt-shows-your-blood/

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

Government Accountability Office. (2013). School Lunch: Modifications Needed to Some of the New Nutrition Standards (No. GAO-13-708T). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Priddy, J. D.-J. (2014). As Tufa to Sapphire: Gendering the Roles of Medieval Women in Combat (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Santora, M., & Baker, A. L. (2017, July 4). Despite Strict Gun Law, Doctor Was Able to Buy Assault Rifle. New York Times, p. 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	Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics
Abbreviation	Cell Biochem. Biophys.
ISSN (print)	1085-9195
ISSN (online)	1559-0283
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Cell Biology General Medicine