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

Boetius, A., 2005. Ocean science. Lost City life. Science 307, 1420–1422.

A journal article with 2 authors

Norris, D.J., Aydil, E.S., 2012. Materials science. Getting Moore from solar cells. Science 338, 625–626.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kiss, I.Z., Zhai, Y., Hudson, J.L., 2002. Emerging coherence in a population of chemical oscillators. Science 296, 1676–1678.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhao, W., Sun, Y., Balsam, W., Lu, H., Liu, L., Chen, J., Ji, J., 2014. Hf-Nd isotopic variability in mineral dust from Chinese and Mongolian deserts: implications for sources and dispersal. Sci. Rep. 4, 5837.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crowl, D.A., 2003. Understanding Explosions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Vink, J.S. (Ed.), 2015. Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe, Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Zeng, S., Shi, H., Kang, L., Ding, L., 2007. Orthogonal Dynamic Hill Climbing Algorithm: ODHC, in: Yang, S., Ong, Y.-S., Jin, Y. (Eds.), Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 79–104.

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., 2014. Scientists Reveal Why Antarctica’s Mysterious Ghost Mountains Appear So Youthful [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-reveal-why-antarcticas-mysterious-ghost-mountains-appear-so-youthful/ (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, 1998. Social Security Administration: Software Development Process Improvements Started But Work Remains (No. AIMD-98-39). 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

Gao, H., 2006. Extracting Key Features for Analysis and Recognition in Computer Vision (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2017. U.S. Sues UnitedHealth Over Medicare Charges. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boetius, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Boetius, 2005; Norris and Aydil, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Norris and Aydil, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al., 2014)

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