How to format your references using the Biochemistry citation style

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

(1) Smaglik, P. (2002) Corridor at the crossroads: Michigan. Nature 420, 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1) Kiers, E. T., and West, S. A. (2015) Evolutionary biology. Evolving new organisms via symbiosis. Science 348, 392–394.

A journal article with 3 authors

(1) Baran, P. S., Maimone, T. J., and Richter, J. M. (2007) Total synthesis of marine natural products without using protecting groups. Nature 446, 404–408.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

(1) Donaldson, G. P., Ladinsky, M. S., Yu, K. B., Sanders, J. G., Yoo, B. B., Chou, W.-C., Conner, M. E., Earl, A. M., Knight, R., Bjorkman, P. J., and Mazmanian, S. K. (2018) Gut microbiota utilize immunoglobulin A for mucosal colonization. Science 360, 795–800.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1) The American Ceramic Society. (2009) Progress in Nanotechnology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

(1) Beckert, B., Damiani, F., Boer, F. S. de, and Bonsangue, M. M. (Eds.). (2013) Formal Methods for Components and Objects: 10th International Symposium, FMCO 2011, Turin, Italy, October 3-5, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

(1) Lindop, J., Treece, G., Gee, A., and Prager, R. (2009) Dynamic Resolution Selection in Strain Imaging, in Acoustical Imaging (Akiyama, I., Ed.), pp 33–38. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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.

Blog post

(1) Hamilton, K. (2015, August 29) “Supermoon” Will Be Visible Tonight. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (2004) No Child Left Behind Act: Education Needs to Provide Additional Technical Assistance and Conduct Implementation Studies for School Choice Provision. 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

(1) Denny, H. M. (2012) Impact of Occupational Health Interventions in Indonesia. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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) Barboza, D. (2017, July 19) Chinese Giant Rose on a Web Of Family Ties. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

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
Abbreviation	Biochemistry
ISSN (print)	0006-2960
ISSN (online)	1520-4995
Scope	Biochemistry