How to format your references using the Annals of Clinical Biochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Clinical 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	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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Smith BD. Behavior. The ultimate ecosystem engineers. Science. 2007 Mar 30;315(5820):1797–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Belden WJ, Barlowe C. Role of Erv29p in collecting soluble secretory proteins into ER-derived transport vesicles. Science. 2001 Nov 16;294(5546):1528–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

Levin EJ, Quick M, Zhou M. Crystal structure of a bacterial homologue of the kidney urea transporter. Nature. 2009 Dec 10;462(7274):757–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Beaugrand G, Brander KM, Alistair Lindley J, Souissi S, Reid PC. Plankton effect on cod recruitment in the North Sea. Nature. 2003 Dec 11;426(6967):661–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marston RC. Portfolio Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Malgrange C. Symmetry and Physical Properties of Crystals. Ricolleau C, Schlenker M, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. XXV, 522 p. 247 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Mihara H, Hayashi Y, Yamamoto M. Performance Evaluation of Fairness between High-Speed TCPs in Wireless Environment. In: Guyot V, editor. Advanced Infocomm Technology: 5th IEEE International Conference, ICAIT 2012, Paris, France, July 25-27, 2012 Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 5–15. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Annals of Clinical Biochemistry.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Camera Traps Reveal What’s Happening As Wildlife Reclaims Chernobyl. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/camera-traps-reveal-chernobyls-surprising-biodiversity/

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. Education and Employment Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Sep. Report No.: AA-96-13(4).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Li X. Graph-based learning for information systems [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2009.

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

Walsh MW. Puerto Rico, Mired in Debt, Approves a Rescue Plan. New York Times. 2017 Mar 13;B4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Annals of Clinical Biochemistry
Abbreviation	Ann. Clin. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	0004-5632
ISSN (online)	1758-1001
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry General Medicine