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

Sherwood, S. (2002). A microphysical connection among biomass burning, cumulus clouds, and stratospheric moisture. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5558), 1272–1275.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ogawa, W., & Kasuga, M. (2008). Cell signaling. Fat stress and liver resistance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5907), 1483–1484.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sato, T. K., Overduin, M., & Emr, S. D. (2001). Location, location, location: membrane targeting directed by PX domains. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5548), 1881–1885.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Vardi, A., Van Mooy, B. A. S., Fredricks, H. F., Popendorf, K. J., Ossolinski, J. E., Haramaty, L., & Bidle, K. D. (2009). Viral glycosphingolipids induce lytic infection and cell death in marine phytoplankton. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5954), 861–865.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shamsuddin, M. (2016). Physical Chemistry of Metallurgical Processes. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hrycay, E. G., & Bandiera, S. M. (Eds.). (2015). Monooxygenase, Peroxidase and Peroxygenase Properties and Mechanisms of Cytochrome P450 (Vol. 851). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bellocchio, F., Borghese, N. A., Ferrari, S., & Piuri, V. (2013). Hierarchical Radial Basis Functions Networks. In N. A. Borghese, S. Ferrari, & V. Piuri (Eds.), 3D Surface Reconstruction: Multi-Scale Hierarchical Approaches (pp. 77–110). New York, NY: 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

Luntz, S. (2014, June 28). Oldest Multicellular Life Revealed In Detail. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/oldest-multicellular-life-revealed-detail/

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. (1981). Alternatives for Funding a GI Bill (No. FPCD-81-45). 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

McGrath, P. M. (2013). Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008: A policy analysis (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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2015, July 3). Remembering the Phonograph. New York Times, p. C22.

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

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