How to format your references using the Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A. 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

Butte, A.J., 2008. Medicine. The ultimate model organism. Science 320, 325–327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shapiro, N.M., Koulakov, I., 2015. Geophysics. Probing the underbelly of a supervolcano. Science 348, 758–759.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tripodi, M., Stepien, A.E., Arber, S., 2011. Motor antagonism exposed by spatial segregation and timing of neurogenesis. Nature 479, 61–66.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Munschauer, M., Nguyen, C.T., Sirokman, K., Hartigan, C.R., Hogstrom, L., Engreitz, J.M., Ulirsch, J.C., Fulco, C.P., Subramanian, V., Chen, J., Schenone, M., Guttman, M., Carr, S.A., Lander, E.S., 2018. Publisher Correction: The NORAD lncRNA assembles a topoisomerase complex critical for genome stability. Nature.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Esch, G.W., 2015. Ecological Parasitology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ruggeri, T., 2015. Rational Extended Thermodynamics beyond the Monatomic Gas, 1st ed. 2015. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Shi, Z., 2008. Application of First Principles Methods in the Study of Fuel Cell Air-Cathode Electrocatalysis, in: Zhang, J. (Ed.), PEM Fuel Cell Electrocatalysts and Catalyst Layers: Fundamentals and Applications. Springer, London, pp. 289–329.

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 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Warming Seas Will Set Marine Life On The Move, With Some Good News Among The Bad [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/warming-seas-will-set-marine-life-move-some-good-news-among-bad/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1986. Computer Systems: Continued Oversight Crucial for Air Force’s Requirements Data Bank (No. IMTEC-87-6). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Anderson, C.W., 2009. Breaking journalism down: Work, authority, and networking local news, 1997–2009 (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Brantley, B., 2017. Art’s but a Walking Shadow. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Butte, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Butte, 2008; Shapiro and Koulakov, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Shapiro and Koulakov, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Munschauer et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A
Abbreviation	Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol.
ISSN (print)	1095-6433
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology Physiology