How to format your references using the International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 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

Chapman, T., 2004. Mining the proteome. Nature 430, 109.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sonenberg, N., Pause, A., 2006. Signal transduction. Protein synthesis and oncogenesis meet again. Science 314, 428–429.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ehebauer, M., Hayward, P., Arias, A.M., 2006. Notch, a universal arbiter of cell fate decisions. Science 314, 1414–1415.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kuo, H.-C., Hui, S., Choi, J., Asiegbu, F.O., Valkonen, J.P.T., Lee, Y.-H., 2014. Secret lifestyles of Neurospora crassa. Sci. Rep. 4, 5135.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaul, S., Ali, F., Janakiram, S., Wattenström, B., 2008. Business Models for Sustainable Telecoms Growth in Developing Economies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ciccarelli, F.D., Miklós, I. (Eds.), 2009. Comparative Genomics: International Workshop, RECOMB-CG 2009, Budapest, Hungary, September 27-29, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Moffett, D.F., Onken, H., 2010. The Cellular Basis of Extreme Alkali Secretion in Insects: A Tale of Two Tissues, in: Gerencser, G.A. (Ed.), Epithelial Transport Physiology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 91–112.

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 International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Five Years Of The Tories Creates Uncertainty For British Science [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/five-years-tories-creates-uncertainty-british-science/ (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, 2014. Federal Student Loans: Impact of Loan Limit Increases on College Prices Is Difficult to Discern (No. GAO-14-7). 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

Powell, J.R., 2013. Ocean fronts in the Southern California Current System and their role in structuring zooplankton distributions, diel vertical migration, and size composition (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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry. New York Times C8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chapman, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Chapman, 2004; Sonenberg and Pause, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Sonenberg and Pause, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kuo et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Biochem. Cell Biol.
ISSN (print)	1357-2725
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology