How to format your references using the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education (BAMBED). 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

J. Marra When will we tame the oceans? (2005) Nature. 436, 175–176.

A journal article with 2 authors

S. J. Benkovic, S. Hammes-Schiffer A perspective on enzyme catalysis. (2003) Science. 301, 1196–1202.

A journal article with 3 authors

F. D. Rossa, F. Dercole, C. Piccardi Profiling core-periphery network structure by random walkers. (2013) Sci. Rep. 3, 1467.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

R. B. Alley, H. J. Horgan, I. Joughin, K. M. Cuffey, T. K. Dupont, B. R. Parizek, et al. A simple law for ice-shelf calving. (2008) Science. 322, 1344.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O. G. Kulinkovich (2015) Cyclopropanes in Organic Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

I. J. Timm, M. Thimm, Eds. (2013) KI 2013: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 36th Annual German Conference on AI, Koblenz, Germany, September 16-20, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

R. N. Banavar, V. Sankaranarayanan in V. Sankaranarayanan (Ed.) (2006) Switched Finite Time Control of a Class of Underactuated Systems, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 51–60.

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 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education.

Blog post

J. Davis Singapore Pursues Palm Oil Companies Over 2015 Haze 2016 IFLScience Accessed on 30 October 2018. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/singapore-pursues-palm-oil-companies-over-2015-haze/.

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 (1996) Medicaid Managed Care: Serving the Disabled Challenges State Programs. 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

L. Purdioux (2015) Predicting deception detection ability based on the concept of self-compassionate personality trait, openness personality structure, and agreeableness personality structure, Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

J. Gorman Nature’s Escape Artists Build Living Towers. (2017) New York Times. D4.

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	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education
Abbreviation	Biochem. Mol. Biol. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1470-8175
ISSN (online)	1539-3429
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology