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

Rees WE (2003) Ecological footprints: A blot on the land. Nature 421:898

A journal article with 2 authors

Ouellette AJ, Selsted ME (2012) Immunology. HD6 defensin nanonets. Science 337:420–421

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou H, Pei Y, Fang D (2014) Magnetic field tunable small-scale mechanical properties of nickel single crystals measured by nanoindentation technique. Sci Rep 4:4583

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yin P, Choi HMT, Calvert CR, Pierce NA (2008) Programming biomolecular self-assembly pathways. Nature 451:318–322

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooper N, Forrest K, Cramp P (2008) Essential Guide to Acute Care. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Chakraborty K (2015) Soft Computing Techniques in Voltage Security Analysis. Springer India, New Delhi

A chapter in an edited book

Grollmann P, Hayward G (2009) Case Studies of TVET Research. In: Rauner F, Maclean R (eds) Handbook of Technical and Vocational Education and Training Research. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 611–695

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

Hale T (2016) Here Are The Answers To Some Of The Weirdest Google Searches. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/here-are-the-answers-to-some-of-the-weirdest-google-searches/. 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 (2015) Information Security: FAA Needs to Address Weaknesses in Air Traffic Control Systems. 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

Dixon-Thompson TL (2015) The relationship between the usage of a Computer Assisted Instructional (CAI) program, Ticket to Read (T2R) and reading achievement in third grade. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Hodara S (2016) Affordability in a Bucolic Setting. New York Times RE17

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

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