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

Kaiser, J., 2000. ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT: Ecologists Hope to Avoid the Mistakes of Previous Assessment. Science 289, 1677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dillin, A., Kelly, J.W., 2007. Medicine. The yin-yang of sirtuins. Science 317, 461–462.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tucker, W.C., Weber, T., Chapman, E.R., 2004. Reconstitution of Ca2+-regulated membrane fusion by synaptotagmin and SNAREs. Science 304, 435–438.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Eun, J.K., Guthrie, K.A., Zirpoli, G., Gadi, V.K., 2013. In situ breast cancer and microchimerism. Sci. Rep. 3, 2192.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Connor, D., 2009. God, Evil, and Design. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Horta, H., Heitor, M., Salmi, J. (Eds.), 2016. Trends and Challenges in Science and Higher Education: Building Capacity in Latin America, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Knowledge Studies in Higher Education. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Zatt, B., Shafique, M., Bampi, S., Henkel, J., 2013. Energy-Efficient Algorithms for Multiview Video Coding, in: Shafique, M., Bampi, S., Henkel, J. (Eds.), 3D Video Coding for Embedded Devices: Energy Efficient Algorithms and Architectures. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 73–126.

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

Taub, B., 2016. How Card Players’ Eyes Give Their Hand Away [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-card-players-eyes-give-their-hand-away/ (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, 2012. Student and Exchange Visitor Program: DHS Needs to Take Actions to Strengthen Monitoring of Schools (No. GAO-12-895T). 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

Teeter, C.M., 2010. Characterizing the Spatial Density Functions of Neural Arbors (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

St. John Kelly, E., 1993. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times 1317.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaiser, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Dillin and Kelly, 2007; Kaiser, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Dillin and Kelly, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Eun et al., 2013)

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