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

Colglazier W (2015) SUSTAINABILITY. Sustainable development agenda: 2030. Science 349:1048–1050

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee WL, Grinstein S (2004) Immunology. The tangled webs that neutrophils weave. Science 303:1477–1478

A journal article with 3 authors

Oppo DW, McManus JF, Cullen JL (2003) Palaeo-oceanography: Deepwater variability in the Holocene epoch. Nature 422:277

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Merchant RR, Edwards JT, Qin T, et al (2018) Modular radical cross-coupling with sulfones enables access to sp3-rich (fluoro)alkylated scaffolds. Science 360:75–80

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Valizadeh P (2016) Field Effect Transistors, A Comprehensive Overview. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Choukèr A (2016) The Immune System in Space: Are we prepared? Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Sturre L, Chiappe D, Vu K-PL, Strybel TZ (2015) Using Eye Movements to Test Assumptions of the Situation Present Assessment Method. In: Yamamoto S (ed) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge in Context: 17th International Conference, HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings, Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 45–52

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 E (2013) New Nanoparticles Can Deliver Cancer Drugs And Monitor Release. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-nanoparticles-can-deliver-cancer-drugs-and-monitor-release/. 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 (1974) Government’s Efforts To Standardize Data Elements and Codes for Computer 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

Rosenberg EL (2010) Learning to live: The clinical importance of first-person accounts of recovery from anorexia nervosa. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

(nyt) SK (2003) World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Putin Reaches Out To Vatican. New York Times A6

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