How to format your references using the Biochemical Pharmacology citation style

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

[1]

I.V. Lerner, Physics. So small yet still giant, Science 316 (2007) 63–64.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

V. Pophristic, L. Goodman, Hyperconjugation not steric repulsion leads to the staggered structure of ethane, Nature 411 (2001) 565–568.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E.T. Spiliotis, M. Kinoshita, W.J. Nelson, A mitotic septin scaffold required for Mammalian chromosome congression and segregation, Science 307 (2005) 1781–1785.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Fujii, V. Chinnusamy, A. Rodrigues, S. Rubio, R. Antoni, S.-Y. Park, S.R. Cutler, J. Sheen, P.L. Rodriguez, J.-K. Zhu, In vitro reconstitution of an abscisic acid signalling pathway, Nature 462 (2009) 660–664.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.B. Fisher, T.P. Breckon, K. Dawson-Howe, A. Fitzgibbon, C. Robertson, E. Trucco, C.K.I. Williams, Dictionary of Computer Vision and Image Processing, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

M. Bhushan, Microelectronic Test Structures for CMOS Technology, Springer, New York, NY, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Antonucci, A. Piatti, Modeling Unreliable Observations in Bayesian Networks by Credal Networks, in: L. Godo, A. Pugliese (Eds.), Scalable Uncertainty Management: Third International Conference, SUM 2009, Washington, DC, USA, September 28-30, 2009. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 28–39.

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 Pharmacology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, From Rockets To Space Toilets: Unique Exhibition Celebrates Soviet Cosmonauts, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/rockets-space-toilets-unique-exhibition-celebrates-soviet-cosmonauts/ (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, VA Student Financial Aid: Opportunity to Reduce Overlap in Approving Education and Training Programs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Albers, One Academic Year Study of Experiences of One Cohort of Graduates from a Midwestern University’s Teacher Education Program, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2015.

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.B. Stewart, Clinton Plan for Taxes Is Expansive but Complex, 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	Biochemical Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Biochem. Pharmacol.
ISSN (print)	0006-2952
Scope	Biochemistry Pharmacology