How to format your references using the Journal of Chemical Biology citation style

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

Nogrady B (2014) Neurobiology: life beyond the pain. Nature 515:S8-9

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaufman J, Jing J (2002) China and AIDS--the time to act is now. Science 296:2339–2340

A journal article with 3 authors

Otto SB, Rall BC, Brose U (2007) Allometric degree distributions facilitate food-web stability. Nature 450:1226–1229

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Young BP, Shin JJH, Orij R, et al (2010) Phosphatidic acid is a pH biosensor that links membrane biogenesis to metabolism. Science 329:1085–1088

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott DM (2009) World Wide Rave. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Chhieng DC, Siegal GP (2005) Updates in Diagnostic Pathology. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Meng E, Zhang X, Benard W (2011) Additive Processes for Polymeric Materials. In: Ghodssi R, Lin P (eds) MEMS Materials and Processes Handbook. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 193–271

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 Journal of Chemical Biology.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) New Evidence From Prehistoric Human Teeth Reveals What The “Paleo Diet” Really Looked Like — And It’s Not What You Think. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-evidence-from-prehistoric-human-teeth-reveals-what-the-paleo-diet-really-looked-like-and-its-not-what-you-think/. 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 (1975) Need for Improvements in the Automated Payroll System of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 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

Cashion AT (2010) Exploring Dielectric Absorption: Data Collection System Development. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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) Film Series. New York Times C22

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	Journal of Chemical Biology
Abbreviation	J. Chem. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1864-6158
ISSN (online)	1864-6166
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Cell Biology