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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Cherry M (2000) Construction starts on largest telescope in the south. Nature 407:4
A journal article with 2 authors
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Hinchliffe P, Sazanov LA (2005) Organization of iron-sulfur clusters in respiratory complex I. Science 309:771–774
A journal article with 3 authors
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Bußhardt P, Kunze D, Gorb SN (2014) Interlocking-based attachment during locomotion in the beetle Pachnoda marginata (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Sci Rep 4:6998
A journal article with 5 or more authors
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Begum NA, Kinoshita K, Kakazu N, et al (2004) Uracil DNA glycosylase activity is dispensable for immunoglobulin class switch. Science 305:1160–1163

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Bayor RH (2017) Fiorello La Guardia. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ
An edited book
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Rebeiz CA, Benning C, Bohnert HJ, et al (2010) The Chloroplast: Basics and Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht
A chapter in an edited book
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Osman T, Thakker D, Schaefer G (2010) Semantics-Based Intelligent Indexing and Retrieval of Digital Images – A Case Study. In: Chbeir R, Badr Y, Abraham A, Hassanien A-E (eds) Emergent Web Intelligence: Advanced Information Retrieval. Springer, London, pp 117–134

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
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Hale T (2016) Oil Starts To Flow In Untouched Corner Of Ecuador’s Biodiversity Haven. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/oil-starts-to-flow-in-untouched-corner-of-ecuadors-biodiversity-haven/. 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
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Government Accountability Office (2012) National Mediation Board Mandates in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012. 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
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Whidby MA (2012) Citation handling: Processing citation texts in scientific documents. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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
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Hartocollis A, Taylor K (2013) After an Introduction by de Blasio, a Brooklyn Hospital Hired His Wife. New York Times A24

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 titleJournal of Chemical Biology
AbbreviationJ. Chem. Biol.
ISSN (print)1864-6158
ISSN (online)1864-6166
ScopeBiochemistry
Biophysics
Cell Biology

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