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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Boyd, I.L., 2012. Ecology. The art of ecological modeling. Science 337, 306–307.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lucht, M., Rosskopf, D., 2008. Comment on “Genetically determined differences in learning from errors.” Science 321, 200; author reply 200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vogelstein, B., Alberts, B., Shine, K., 2002. Genetics. Please don’t call it cloning! Science 295, 1237.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, C., Young, A.L., Starling-Windhof, A., Bracher, A., Saschenbrecker, S., Rao, B.V., Rao, K.V., Berninghausen, O., Mielke, T., Hartl, F.U., Beckmann, R., Hayer-Hartl, M., 2010. Coupled chaperone action in folding and assembly of hexadecameric Rubisco. Nature 463, 197–202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saccone, C., Pesole, G., 2005. Handbook of Comparative Genomics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Roermund, A.H.M., Casier, H., Steyaert, M. (Eds.), 2010. Analog Circuit Design: Smart Data Converters, Filters on Chip, Multimode Transmitters. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Verweij, A., 2010. Perspective in a box, in: García-Salgado, T. (Ed.), Architecture, Mathematics and Perspective. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp. 47–62.

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 C.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. Clouds On Venus Could Tell Us What The Surface Looks Like [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/clouds-on-venus-could-tell-us-what-the-surface-looks-like/ (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, 1989. Equal Employment Opportunity: Actions Needed for FAA to Implement Committee Recommendations in the Airline Industry (No. HRD-89-100). 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

McCready, M., 2017. Examining the Role of Community Capacity for Sustainable Water Planning through Local Urban Governance: A Case Study Analysis of Waukesha, Wisconsin (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Kelly, J., 1979. When the Mill Pulled the Rub Out From Under Yonkers. New York Times Westchester WeeklyWC15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boyd, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Boyd, 2012; Lucht and Rosskopf, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Lucht and Rosskopf, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C
Abbreviation	Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C. Toxicol. Pharmacol.
ISSN (print)	1532-0456
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Physiology Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis General Medicine Toxicology