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

Knoepfler, P., 2009. Journal club. A cell biologist looks at the risk and promise of a new insight into stem cells and cancer. Nature 457, 361.

A journal article with 2 authors

Madix, R.J., Friend, C.M., 2011. Interfacial chemistry: gold’s enigmatic surface. Nature 479, 482–483.

A journal article with 3 authors

DeLoache, J.S., Uttal, D.H., Rosengren, K.S., 2004. Scale errors offer evidence for a perception-action dissociation early in life. Science 304, 1027–1029.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, J., Wang, Z., Chen, C., Huang, S., 2014. Atomic-scale observation of migration and coalescence of Au nanoclusters on YSZ surface by aberration-corrected STEM. Sci. Rep. 4, 5521.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Metzger, R.M., 2012. The Physical Chemist’s Toolbox. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Esparza, J., Majumdar, R. (Eds.), 2010. Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 16th International Conference, TACAS 2010, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2010, Paphos, Cyprus, March 20-28, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Spears, J.L., Rubio, M.A.T., Sample, P.J., Alfonzo, J.D., 2012. tRNA Biogenesis and Processing, in: Bindereif, A. (Ed.), RNA Metabolism in Trypanosomes, Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 99–121.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Here’s How We Can Save The Car – And The Planet At The Same Time [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2015. Accessible Communications: FCC Should Evaluate the Effectiveness of Its Public Outreach Efforts (No. GAO-15-574). 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

Goldberg, A.L., 2017. The Seriously Ill Patient’s Broken Care Continuum: One Community’s Action Response (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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, K., 2002. Where Mu sic: Will Be Coming From. New York Times 629.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knoepfler, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Knoepfler, 2009; Madix and Friend, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Madix and Friend, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

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