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

Lawrence, P. A. (2004). Last hideout of the unknown? Nature, 429(6989), 247.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nachev, P., & Husain, M. (2007). Comment on “Detecting awareness in the vegetative state.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5816), 1221; author reply 1221.

A journal article with 3 authors

Holland, J. N., Okuyama, T., & DeAngelis, D. L. (2006). Comment on “Asymmetric coevolutionary networks facilitate biodiversity maintenance.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5795), 1887; author reply 1887.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zimmerman, S. C., Wendland, M. S., Rakow, N. A., Zharov, I., & Suslick, K. S. (2002). Synthetic hosts by monomolecular imprinting inside dendrimers. Nature, 418(6896), 399–403.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cunningham, V. (2011). Victorian Poetry Now. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Torre Toledano, D., Ortega Giménez, A., Teixeira, A., González Rodríguez, J., Hernández Gómez, L., San Segundo Hernández, R., & Ramos Castro, D. (Eds.). (2012). Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages: IberSPEECH 2012 Conference, Madrid, Spain, November 21-23, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 328). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Balamohan, B., Flocchini, P., Miri, A., & Santoro, N. (2010). Time Optimal Algorithms for Black Hole Search in Rings. In W. Wu & O. Daescu (Eds.), Combinatorial Optimization and Applications: 4th International Conference, COCOA 2010, Kailua-Kona, HI, USA, December 18-20, 2010, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 58–71). 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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, October 31). Tesla Unveils Solar Roof Tiles In Bid To Make Homes 100% Renewable. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (1998). Schools and Libraries Corporation: Actions Needed to Strengthen Program Integrity Operations Before Committing Funds (No. T-RCED-98-243). 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

Vail, A. S. (2012). The gift of noetic image: Spontaneous imagery and psychological well-being in women with breast cancer (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Hubbard, B. (2017, September 26). Saudi Arabia to Rescind Ban on Female Drivers. New York Times, p. A1.

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