How to format your references using the JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic 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	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

Nowlan W (2002) Human genetics. A rational view of insurance and genetic discrimination. Science 297:195–196

A journal article with 2 authors

Müller F-J, Schuppert A (2011) Few inputs can reprogram biological networks. Nature 478:E4; discussion E4-5

A journal article with 3 authors

Julsgaard B, Kozhekin A, Polzik ES (2001) Experimental long-lived entanglement of two macroscopic objects. Nature 413:400–403

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Matsubayashi K, Maki M, Tsuzuki T, et al (2002) Magnetic properties: parasitic ferromagnetism in a hexaboride? Nature 420:143–4; discussion 144

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chan NH (2010) Time Series: Applications to Finance with R and S-Plus®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Berbineau M, Jonsson M, Bonnin J-M, et al (2013) Communication Technologies for Vehicles: 5th International Workshop, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains 2013, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France, May 14-15, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Cechinel C, da Silva Camargo S, Sánchez-Alonso S, Sicilia M-Á (2012) On the Search for Intrinsic Quality Metrics of Learning Objects. In: Dodero JM, Palomo-Duarte M, Karampiperis P (eds) Metadata and Semantics Research: 6th Research Conference, MTSR 2012, Cádiz, Spain, November 28-30, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 49–60

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 JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Key Ingredient For Life Discovered On Mars. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/compounds-important-life-discovered-mars/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2011) Space Acquisitions: DOD Delivering New Generations of Satellites, but Space System Acquisition Challenges Remain. 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

Porter SM (2010) Orthographic influence on the perception and production of Spanish loans in English. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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) This Time Tomorrow. New York Times C9

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Biol. Inorg. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0949-8257
ISSN (online)	1432-1327
Scope	Biochemistry Inorganic Chemistry