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]

F.R. Chang, Computer science. Is your computer secure?, Science 325 (2009) 550–551.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. McAndrew, E. Scanlon, Education. Open learning at a distance: lessons for struggling MOOCs, Science 342 (2013) 1450–1451.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Curry, B. Dickson, I. Yashayaev, A change in the freshwater balance of the Atlantic Ocean over the past four decades, Nature 426 (2003) 826–829.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Akichika, S. Hirano, Y. Shichino, T. Suzuki, H. Nishimasu, R. Ishitani, A. Sugita, Y. Hirose, S. Iwasaki, O. Nureki, T. Suzuki, Cap-specific terminal N6-methylation of RNA by an RNA polymerase II-associated methyltransferase, Science (2018).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.M. Bojar, Manual of Perioperative Care in Adult Cardiac Surgery, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

E. Spiro, Y.-Y. Ahn, eds., Social Informatics: 8th International Conference, SocInfo 2016, Bellevue, WA, USA, November 11-14, 2016, Proceedings, Part I, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C.R. Gandhi, Stellate Cells, in: S.P.S. Monga (Ed.), Molecular Pathology of Liver Diseases, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2011: pp. 53–79.

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]

K. Hamilton, 10 Things Every Child With Autism Wishes You Knew, IFLScience (2017).

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, Aviation Security: Flight and Cabin Crew Member Security Training Strengthened, but Better Planning and Internal Controls Needed, 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]

A. Soltani, Parenting and disciplinary practices of Iranian mothers: A quantitative study, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

J. Koblin, Oliver Extends HBO Contract, New York Times (2017) C3.

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