How to format your references using the Computational Biology and Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational Biology and Chemistry. 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

Møller, B.L., 2010. Plant science. Dynamic metabolons. Science 330, 1328–1329.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oka, T., McCall, B.J., 2011. Astronomy. Disclosing identities in diffuse interstellar bands. Science 331, 293–294.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wada-Katsumata, A., Silverman, J., Schal, C., 2013. Changes in taste neurons support the emergence of an adaptive behavior in cockroaches. Science 340, 972–975.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bénazet, J.-D., Bischofberger, M., Tiecke, E., Gonçalves, A., Martin, J.F., Zuniga, A., Naef, F., Zeller, R., 2009. A self-regulatory system of interlinked signaling feedback loops controls mouse limb patterning. Science 323, 1050–1053.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Etube, L.S., 2000. Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics of Offshore Structures. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Kloos, C.D., Gillet, D., Crespo García, R.M., Wild, F., Wolpers, M. (Eds.), 2011. Towards Ubiquitous Learning: 6th European Conference of Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2011, Palermo, Italy, September 20-23, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Nöth, E., Steidl, S., Schuster, M., 2009. Communication Disorders and Speech Technology, in: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (Eds.), Text, Speech and Dialogue: 12th International Conference, TSD 2009, Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 13-17, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 15–15.

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 Computational Biology and Chemistry.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. New Species Of Marsupial Has Sex Until It Dies [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-marsupial-has-sex-until-it-dies/ (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, 1999. Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (No. OCG-99-18). 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

Alonzo, C.E., 2010. Operation Uniting Families: Family treatment program a grant (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Hartocollis, A., 2013. Two Wills, One Private Heiress. New York Times MB1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Møller, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Møller, 2010; Oka and McCall, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Oka and McCall, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Bénazet et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computational Biology and Chemistry
Abbreviation	Comput. Biol. Chem.
ISSN (print)	1476-9271
Scope	Biochemistry Structural Biology Organic Chemistry Computational Mathematics