How to format your references using the Process Biochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Process 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]

B. Shneiderman, Computer science. Science 2.0, Science 319 (2008) 1349–1350.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.S. Cha, N. Kleckner, ATR homolog Mec1 promotes fork progression, thus averting breaks in replication slow zones, Science 297 (2002) 602–606.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Banerjee, W.L. Santos, G.L. Verdine, Structure of a DNA glycosylase searching for lesions, Science 311 (2006) 1153–1157.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Guo, L. Zhou, L. Xu, X. Zhou, J. Hu, R. Pei, Multiple types of logic gates based on a single G-quadruplex DNA strand, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7315.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Cornier, A. Owen, A. Kwade, M. Van de Voorde, Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology: Innovation and Production, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

M. Zanetti, S.P. Schoenberger, eds., Memory T Cells, Springer, New York, NY, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Maragoudakis, N. Cosmas, A. Garbis, Mining Natural Language Programming Directives with Class-Oriented Bayesian Networks, in: C. Tang, C.X. Ling, X. Zhou, N.J. Cercone, X. Li (Eds.), Advanced Data Mining and Applications: 4th International Conference, ADMA 2008, Chengdu, China, October 8-10, 2008. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 15–26.

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 Process Biochemistry.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Can Invertebrates Feel Pain?, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/can-invertebrates-feel-pain/ (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, Information Technology: Demand for the Social Security Administration’s Electronic Data Exchanges Is Growing and Presents Future Challenges, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Fadamin, Synthesis, Characterization and Electrochemistry of the Ruthenium Schiff Base Complex [(Saloph)Ru(NO)Cl], Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 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]

J. Markoff, A Would-Be Father of A.I, New York Times (2016) B1.

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	Process Biochemistry
Abbreviation	Process Biochem.
ISSN (print)	1359-5113
Scope	Biochemistry Bioengineering Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology