How to format your references using the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

K.-A. Nave, Myelination and support of axonal integrity by glia, Nature 468 (2010) 244–252.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.B. Haga, J.C. Venter, Genetics. FDA races in wrong direction, Science 301 (2003) 466.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.S. Fashami, J. Atulasimha, S. Bandyopadhyay, Energy dissipation and error probability in fault-tolerant binary switching, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3204.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Mai, G.E. Walker, A. Brunani, G. Guzzaloni, G. Grossi, A. Oldani, G. Aimaretti, M. Scacchi, P. Marzullo, Inherent insulin sensitivity is a major determinant of multimeric adiponectin responsiveness to short-term weight loss in extreme obesity, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5803.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.W. Vallin, The Elements of Cantor Sets, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

J.M. Vivanco, T. Weir, eds., Chemical Biology of the Tropics: An Interdisciplinary Approach, First, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Egger, R. Dirnhofer, S. Grabherr, Postmortem Angiography and the Thanatology of the Vascular System, in: S. Grabherr, J.M. Grimm, A. Heinemann (Eds.), Atlas of Postmortem Angiography, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 71–79.

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 Inorganic Biochemistry.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Autistic People Are More Creative Than You Might Think, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/autistic-people-are-more-creative-you-might-think/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, NASA Travel: Passenger Aircraft Services Annually Cost Taxpayers Millions More Than Commercial Airlines, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.K. Creed, Identifying Controls on Patterns of Intermittent Streamflow in Three Streams of the American Southwest: A Geospatial Approach, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017.

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

[1]

G.G. Gustines, Comic-Book Heroes Drawn From Reality, New York Times (2010) E7.

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 Inorganic Biochemistry
Abbreviation	J. Inorg. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	0162-0134
Scope	Biochemistry Inorganic Chemistry