How to format your references using the Clinical Biochemistry citation style

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

B. Cooper, Turing centenary: The incomputable reality, Nature 482 (2012) 465.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.W. Lewcock, R.R. Reed, Neuroscience. ORs rule the roost in the olfactory system, Science 302 (2003) 2078–2079.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W. Runguphan, X. Qu, S.E. O’Connor, Integrating carbon-halogen bond formation into medicinal plant metabolism, Nature 468 (2010) 461–464.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Kaitsuka, C. Katagiri, P. Beesetty, K. Nakamura, S. Hourani, K. Tomizawa, J.A. Kozak, M. Matsushita, Inactivation of TRPM7 kinase activity does not impair its channel function in mice, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5718.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

I.S. Kulaev, V.M. Vagabov, T.V. Kulakovskaya, The Biochemistry of Inorganic Polyphosphates, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

M. de Magistris, Circuiti: Fondamenti di circuiti per l’Ingegneria, 2a ed. 2016, Springer, Milano, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Deantoni, C. Brun, B. Caillaud, R.B. France, G. Karsai, O. Nierstrasz, E. Syriani, Domain Globalization: Using Languages to Support Technical and Social Coordination, in: B. Combemale, B.H.C. Cheng, R.B. France, J.-M. Jézéquel, B. Rumpe (Eds.), Globalizing Domain-Specific Languages: International Dagstuhl Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, October 5-10, 2014, Revised Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 70–87.

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 Clinical Biochemistry.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Struggling To Stay Healthy In 2017? Bad Marketing Could Be To Blame, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/struggling-to-stay-healthy-in-2017-bad-marketing-could-be-to-blame/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Guaranteed Student Loans: Better Criteria Needed for Financing Guarantee Agencies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

W.D. Plosky, An Investment Case for Addressing Social Drivers of Structural Stigma and Discrimination Against Refugees in Resource-Poor Urban Areas, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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]

S. Hollander, Romance Does Not Stop Even After the Race Begins, New York Times (2000) D1.

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	Clinical Biochemistry
Abbreviation	Clin. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	0009-9120
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry General Medicine