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

Piperno, D.R., 2001. Archaeology. On maize and the sunflower. Science 292, 2260–2261.

A journal article with 2 authors

Traas, J., Vernoux, T., 2010. Plant science. Oscillating roots. Science 329, 1290–1291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prescher, J.A., Dube, D.H., Bertozzi, C.R., 2004. Chemical remodelling of cell surfaces in living animals. Nature 430, 873–877.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bangura, A.F., Xu, X., Wakeham, N., Peng, N., Horii, S., Hussey, N.E., 2013. The Wiedemann-Franz law in the putative one-dimensional metallic phase of PrBa₂Cu₄O₈. Sci. Rep. 3, 3261.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tikhomirov, V.V., 2016. Hydrogeochemistry Fundamentals and Advances. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lunze, J. (Ed.), 2014. Control Theory of Digitally Networked Dynamic Systems. Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Vrousgou, O.T., Psomopoulos, F.E., Mitkas, P.A., 2015. A Grid-Enabled Modular Framework for Efficient Sequence Analysis Workflows, in: Iliadis, L., Jayne, C. (Eds.), Engineering Applications of Neural Networks: 16th International Conference, EANN 2015, Rhodes, Greece, September 25-28 2015.Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 47–56.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Rosetta Comet Puts On A Firework Display [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosetta-comet-jets/ (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, 1987. NASA ADP Systems: Information on the Automated Mission and Payload Tracking System (No. IMTEC-87-38FS). 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

Lurz, J.P., 2019. Using Simplified Models and Limited-Horizon Planning to React to Time-Critical Problems (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Grynbaum, M.M., 2017. The Incredible Shrinking White House Briefing. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Piperno, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Piperno, 2001; Traas and Vernoux, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Traas and Vernoux, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Bangura 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