How to format your references using the Biochemical Genetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biochemical Genetics. 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

Leonard KE (2015) Perspective: Beyond the neural circuits. Nature 522:S56

A journal article with 2 authors

Hitti FL, Siegelbaum SA (2014) The hippocampal CA2 region is essential for social memory. Nature 508:88–92

A journal article with 3 authors

Nelson FE, Anisimov OA, Shiklomanov NI (2001) Subsidence risk from thawing permafrost. Nature 410:889–890

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chapman RD, Heidemann M, Albert TK, et al (2007) Transcribing RNA polymerase II is phosphorylated at CTD residue serine-7. Science 318:1780–1782

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tavakoli JM (2008) Structured Finance and Collateralized Debt Obligations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Nguyen NT, Katarzyniak RP, Janiak A (eds) (2009) New Challenges in Computational Collective Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kari J (2012) Cellular Automata, the Collatz Conjecture and Powers of 3/2. In: Yen H-C, Ibarra OH (eds) Developments in Language Theory: 16th International Conference, DLT 2012, Taipei, Taiwan, August 14-17, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 40–49

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 Biochemical Genetics.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) Parasitic Fungus Infects Cells By Fusing Them Together For Easier Travel. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/parasitic-fungus-infects-cells-by-fusing-them-together-for-easier-travel/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2015) Internet Protocol Transition: FCC Should Strengthen Its Data Collection Efforts to Assess the Transition’s Effects. 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

Le R (2015) Three-Power Power System State Estimation Using Extended Kalman Filter with CompactRIO Implementation. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Chapman MM (2015) U.A.W. Leaders Approve Proposed G.M. Contract. New York Times B3

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Leonard 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hitti and Siegelbaum 2014; Leonard 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Hitti and Siegelbaum 2014)
Three or more authors: (Chapman et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biochemical Genetics
Abbreviation	Biochem. Genet.
ISSN (print)	0006-2928
ISSN (online)	1573-4927
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Biochemistry Genetics Molecular Biology General Medicine