How to format your references using the World Journal of Biological Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Biological Chemistry. 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

Hede K. Emergency medicine: The need for speed. Nature 2013; 503: S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

McMichael A, Klenerman P. HIV/AIDS. HLA leaves its footprints on HIV. Science 2002; 296: 1410–1411.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prokopenko AA, Karabanov EB, Williams DF. Age of long sediment cores from Lake Baikal. Nature 2002; 415: 976.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Cirelli C, Bushey D, Hill S, Huber R, Kreber R, Ganetzky B, Tononi G. Reduced sleep in Drosophila Shaker mutants. Nature 2005; 434: 1087–1092.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ryan TP. Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement: Ryan/Quality Improvement 3E. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wang L, Shen W (eds). Process Planning and Scheduling for Distributed Manufacturing. London: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Khaleel H, Singh C, White C, Al-Rizzo H, Mohan S. Novel Wireless Systems for Telemedicine and Body Area Networks Applications. In: Plantier G, Schultz T, Fred A, Gamboa H, editors. Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies: 7th International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2014, Angers, France, March 3-6, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015: 52–65.

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 World Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrews R. What Would Happen If Every Single Nuke In The World Went Off At The Same Time? IFLScience. 2017. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/what-would-happen-if-every-single-nuke-in-the-world-went-off-at-the-same-time/

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. Environmental Protection: EPA’s Science and Technology Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hayes MG. A qualitative case study of cultural competency among Advanced Placement teachers in Florida. 2010.

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

Pols M. Out of the Ashes. New York Times. 2017; : BR17.

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	World Journal of Biological Chemistry
ISSN (online)	1949-8454
Scope