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]

I. Fuyuno, Olympus finds market rival hard to swallow, Nature 438 (2005) 913.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W. Xu, C.A. Angell, Solvent-free electrolytes with aqueous solution-like conductivities, Science 302 (2003) 422–425.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.P.P. Zhang, Y.Z. Pigli, P.A. Rice, Structure of the LexA-DNA complex and implications for SOS box measurement, Nature 466 (2010) 883–886.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H.F. Iaccarino, A.C. Singer, A.J. Martorell, A. Rudenko, F. Gao, T.Z. Gillingham, H. Mathys, J. Seo, O. Kritskiy, F. Abdurrob, C. Adaikkan, R.G. Canter, R. Rueda, E.N. Brown, E.S. Boyden, L.-H. Tsai, Author Correction: Gamma frequency entrainment attenuates amyloid load and modifies microglia, Nature 562 (2018) E1.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Sadr, Interest Rate Swaps and Their Derivatives, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

C. Devonshire-Ellis, S.L. Jones, E. Ku, eds., The Yangtze River Delta: Business Guide to the Shanghai Region, 5th ed. 2012, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Dao, A. Schönhuth, F. Hormozdiari, I. Hajirasouliha, S.C. Sahinalp, M. Ester, Quantifying Systemic Evolutionary Changes by Color Coding Confidence-Scored PPI Networks, in: S.L. Salzberg, T. Warnow (Eds.), Algorithms in Bioinformatics: 9th International Workshop, WABI 2009, Philadelphia, PA, USA, September 12-13, 2009. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 37–48.

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]

R. Andrews, Bill Gates Tells IFLScience How He Plans To Save The World In An Exclusive Interview, IFLScience (2016).

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, Federal Research: Observations on the Small Business Innovation Research Program, 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]

C. Kong, Formal Methods Applied to the Specification of an Active Network Node, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2001.

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. Kishkovsky, Valentin Rasputin, ‘Village Prose’ Leader, Dies at 77, New York Times (2015) A25.

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