How to format your references using the Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics. 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

Caplan, A. (2004). Bioethics. Is biomedical research too dangerous to pursue? Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5661), 1142.

A journal article with 2 authors

Deuss, A., & Woodhouse, J. (2001). Seismic observations of splitting of the mid-transition zone discontinuity in Earth’s mantle. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5541), 354–357.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bajcsy, M., Zibrov, A. S., & Lukin, M. D. (2003). Stationary pulses of light in an atomic medium. Nature, 426(6967), 638–641.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jamora, C., DasGupta, R., Kocieniewski, P., & Fuchs, E. (2003). Links between signal transduction, transcription and adhesion in epithelial bud development. Nature, 422(6929), 317–322.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kushner, R., Lawrence, V., & Kumar, S. (2013). Practical Manual of Clinical Obesity. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Chen, Q., Hameurlain, A., Toumani, F., Wagner, R., & Decker, H. (Eds.). (2015). Database and Expert Systems Applications: 26th International Conference, DEXA 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 1-4, 2015, Proceedings, Part I (1st ed. 2015., Vol. 9261). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Amorim, M. N., Ferreira, A., & Meira-Machado, L. (2016). Micro-Analysis of Mortality in Urban Areas. The Parish of Oliveira in Guimarães, in Northern Portugal Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries. In D. Ramiro Fariñas & M. Oris (Eds.), New Approaches to Death in Cities during the Health Transition (pp. 77–93). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 28). Watch Live As Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy Makes Its Closest Approach With Sun. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/live-webcast-comet-c2014-q2-lovejoy-makes-its-closest-approach-sun/

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. (1988). Air Traffic Control: Continued Improvements Needed in FAA’s Management of the NAS Plan (No. RCED-89-7). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lara, C. (2015). Bullying victimization among adolescent students: A qualitative study (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2012, May 22). New York Investigates Insurer Payments to Banks. New York Times, p. 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	Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics
Abbreviation	Cell Biochem. Biophys.
ISSN (print)	1085-9195
ISSN (online)	1559-0283
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Cell Biology General Medicine