How to format your references using the Chemico-Biological Interactions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemico-Biological Interactions. 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]

X. Kong, China must protect high-quality arable land, Nature 506 (2014) 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H.A. Makse, J. Kurchan, Testing the thermodynamic approach to granular matter with a numerical model of a decisive experiment, Nature 415 (2002) 614–617.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

U. Guler, A. Boltasseva, V.M. Shalaev, Applied physics. Refractory plasmonics, Science 344 (2014) 263–264.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W.-C. Hon, M.I. Wilson, K. Harlos, T.D.W. Claridge, C.J. Schofield, C.W. Pugh, P.H. Maxwell, P.J. Ratcliffe, D.I. Stuart, E.Y. Jones, Structural basis for the recognition of hydroxyproline in HIF-1 alpha by pVHL, Nature 417 (2002) 975–978.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Choudhry, D. Moskovic, M. Wong, S. Baig, Z. Liu, M. Lizzio, A. Voicu, Fixed Income Markets, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

M. Weichold, M. Hamdi, M.Z. Shakir, M. Abdallah, G.K. Karagiannidis, M. Ismail, eds., Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks: 10th International Conference, CROWNCOM 2015, Doha, Qatar, April 21-23, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Mora, L. Pedrotti, G. Tuvo, S. Gili, Diagnosis, in: R. Mora (Ed.), Nonunion of the Long Bones: Diagnosis and Treatment with Compression-Distraction Techniques, Springer, Milano, 2006: pp. 41–46.

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 Chemico-Biological Interactions.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Teens Invent Condoms That Change Color When They Detect STDs, IFLScience (2015).

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, Charter Schools: Federal Funding Available but Barriers Exist, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Sommer, How Experiences Influence and Inform School Principals’ Actions to Further Develop Teachers’ Instructional Practice, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2017.

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]

B. Kenigsberg, The Listings: Film Series, New York Times (2016) C26.

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	Chemico-Biological Interactions
Abbreviation	Chem. Biol. Interact.
ISSN (print)	0009-2797
Scope	General Medicine Toxicology