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

Smaglik, P., 2002. The physics imbalance. Nature 419, 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tani, K., Stoltz, B.M., 2006. Synthesis and structural analysis of 2-quinuclidonium tetrafluoroborate. Nature 441, 731–734.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chu, L., Xiao, K.-J., Yu, J.-Q., 2014. Room-temperature enantioselective C-H iodination via kinetic resolution. Science 346, 451–455.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Arendt, D., Tessmar-Raible, K., Snyman, H., Dorresteijn, A.W., Wittbrodt, J., 2004. Ciliary photoreceptors with a vertebrate-type opsin in an invertebrate brain. Science 306, 869–871.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tang, C., 2016. The Data Industry: The Business and Economics of Information and Big Data. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Correia, F., Iacona, A. (Eds.), 2013. Around the Tree: Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Branching and the Open Future, Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Kanemaru, S.-I., 2015. Regeneration of the Tympanic Membrane, in: Ito, J. (Ed.), Regenerative Medicine in Otolaryngology. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 47–59.

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. Explainer: microRNA, The Puppet Master Of The Genome [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/explainer-microrna-puppet-master-genome/ (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, 2007. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Further Actions Needed to Effectively Manage Risks (No. GAO-08-183T). 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

Mathus, M.A., 2017. The Relationship between Teacher Evaluation Ratings and Student Achievement in a Rural, Midwest School District (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Vecsey, G., 2016. A Hockey Luminary Glowed With Modesty. New York Times D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2002; Tani and Stoltz, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Tani and Stoltz, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Arendt et al., 2004)

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