How to format your references using the Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part D: Genomics and Proteomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part D: Genomics and Proteomics. 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

Teich, A.H., 2000. Data for an election year. Science 289, 1878b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sáez, A.G., Lozano, E., 2005. Body doubles. Nature 433, 111.

A journal article with 3 authors

Depine, G.V., Andronicos, C.L., Phipps-Morgan, J., 2008. Near-isothermal conditions in the middle and lower crust induced by melt migration. Nature 452, 80–83.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Knauth, D.C., Federman, S.R., Lambert, D.L., Crane, P., 2000. Newly synthesized lithium in the interstellar medium. Nature 405, 656–658.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yeakley, C.L., Fiebrich, J.D., 2015. Collaborative Process Improvement. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kamm, B. (Ed.), 2015. Microorganisms in Biorefineries, Microbiology Monographs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Le Bras, Y., Lenca, P., Lallich, S., 2010. Mining Interesting Rules Without Support Requirement: A General Universal Existential Upward Closure Property, in: Stahlbock, R., Crone, S.F., Lessmann, S. (Eds.), Data Mining: Special Issue in Annals of Information Systems, Annals of Information Systems. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 75–98.

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 D: Genomics and Proteomics.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. Frozen Poop Pills Could Fight Deadly Infections [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/frozen-poop-pills-make-fecal-transplants-easier-swallow/ (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, 2001. Internal Revenue Service: Results of Review of IRS Spending for Business Systems Modernization (No. GAO-01-920). 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

Rogers, S., 2014. Teacher Induction Programs: How Key Components Influence Teacher Retention Rates in Rural School Districts (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

Kenigsberg, B., 2016. Review: ‘Finding Babel’ Retraces a Celebrated Grandfather’s Footsteps. New York Times C7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Teich, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Sáez and Lozano, 2005; Teich, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Sáez and Lozano, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Knauth et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part D: Genomics and Proteomics
Abbreviation	Comp. Biochem. Physiol. Part D Genomics Proteomics
ISSN (print)	1744-117X
Scope	Biochemistry Genetics Molecular Biology Physiology