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

Klar, A. J. S. (2002). Fibonacci’s flowers. Nature, 417(6889), 595.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaya, M., & Higuchi, H. (2010). Nonlinear elasticity and an 8-nm working stroke of single myosin molecules in myofilaments. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5992), 686–689.

A journal article with 3 authors

Amari, T., Canou, A., & Aly, J.-J. (2014). Characterizing and predicting the magnetic environment leading to solar eruptions. Nature, 514(7523), 465–469.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yazaki-Sugiyama, Y., Kang, S., Câteau, H., Fukai, T., & Hensch, T. K. (2009). Bidirectional plasticity in fast-spiking GABA circuits by visual experience. Nature, 462(7270), 218–221.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chiang, H.-D. (2010). Direct Methods for Stability Analysis of Electric Power Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Litvan, I. (Ed.). (2005). Atypical Parkinsonian Disorders: Clinical and Research Aspects. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Flesca, S., Furche, T., & Oro, L. (2012). Reasoning and Ontologies in Data Extraction. In T. Eiter & T. Krennwallner (Eds.), Reasoning Web. Semantic Technologies for Advanced Query Answering: 8th International Summer School 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 3-8, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 184–210). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Andrew, D. (2016, July 25). Study Shows Direct Manipulation Of Brain Can Reverse Effects Of Depression. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/study-shows-direct-manipulation-of-brain-can-reverse-effects-of-depression/

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. (2002). Department of Education: Guaranteed Student Loan Program Vulnerabilities (No. GAO-03-268R). 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

Tu, K. N. (2013). Novel bivalent organophosphates as inhibitors of butyrylcholinesterase — Compounds with potential for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and studies in the development of asymmetric catalytic Kabachnik-Fields reaction (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Otis, J. (2017, October 23). Decades After a Stroke, Seeking Independence and Normalcy. New York Times, p. A20.

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