How to format your references using the Annual Review of Biochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of 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 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

McMillan PF. 2005. Geochemistry. A stranger in paradise. Science. 310(5751):1125–26

A journal article with 2 authors

Taberlet P, Cheddadi R. 2002. Ecology. Quaternary refugia and persistence of biodiversity. Science. 297(5589):2009–10

A journal article with 3 authors

Miyagoshi T, Kageyama A, Sato T. 2010. Zonal flow formation in the Earth’s core. Nature. 463(7282):793–96

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bailey JV, Joye SB, Kalanetra KM, Flood BE, Corsetti FA. 2007. Evidence of giant sulphur bacteria in Neoproterozoic phosphorites. Nature. 445(7124):198–201

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Featherstone H, Holt E. 2011. Small Animal Ophthalmology. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Zhang Z, Wu L, Xu W, Du D-Z, eds. 2014. Combinatorial Optimization and Applications: 8th International Conference, COCOA 2014, Wailea, Maui, HI, USA, December 19-21, 2014, Proceedings, Vol. 8881. Cham: Springer International Publishing. XV, 774 p. 218 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Pascual SIP. 2009. Phenotype Variations in Early Onset Pompe Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment Results with Myozyme®. In Inherited Neuromuscular Diseases: Translation from Pathomechanisms to Therapies, ed C Espinós, V Felipo, F Palau, pp. 39–46. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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 Annual Review of Biochemistry.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. This Is What Astronauts See As They Re-Enter Earth’s Atmosphere. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2011. Next Generation Air Transportation System: Linking Test Facilities Can Help Leverage Resources and Improve Technology Transfer Efforts. GAO-12-187T, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shlapak A. 2013. Mental health of foster youth in Ventura County. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Oppel RA Jr, Pérez-Peña R. 2016. Chicago Releases Videos of Police Shootings. New York Times, June 4, p. A9

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	Annual Review of Biochemistry
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	0066-4154
ISSN (online)	1545-4509
Scope	Biochemistry