How to format your references using the Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A. 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

Robinson, G.E., 2004. Genomics. Beyond nature and nurture. Science 304, 397–399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wiest, O., Helquist, P., 2011. Chemistry. Striking a balance to control stereochemistry. Science 333, 1831–1832.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kang, H., Koh, D.-Y., Lee, H., 2014. Nondestructive natural gas hydrate recovery driven by air and carbon dioxide. Sci. Rep. 4, 6616.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brazma, A., Robinson, A., Cameron, G., Ashburner, M., 2000. One-stop shop for microarray data. Nature 403, 699–700.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox, D.A., 2004. Galois Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Johansson, B., Karlsson, C., Stough, R. (Eds.), 2006. The Emerging Digital Economy: Entrepreneurship, Clusters, and Policy, Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Liuni, M., Röbel, A., Romito, M., Rodet, X., 2011. An Entropy Based Method for Local Time-Adaptation of the Spectrogram, in: Ystad, S., Aramaki, M., Kronland-Martinet, R., Jensen, K. (Eds.), Exploring Music Contents: 7th International Symposium, CMMR 2010, Málaga, Spain, June 21-24, 2010. Revised Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 60–75.

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 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2016. How AI Will Affect Urban Life In 2030, According To Scientists [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-ai-will-affect-urban-life-in-2030-according-to-scientists/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2011. Space Acquisitions: Development and Oversight Challenges in Delivering Improved Space Situational Awareness Capabilities (No. GAO-11-545). 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

Luce, G.R., 2015. British viola repertoire of the first half of the twentieth century (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Wagner, J., 2016. Backup Catcher’s Unlikely Three-Run Blast Helps Nationals Even Series. New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Robinson, 2004; Wiest and Helquist, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Wiest and Helquist, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Brazma et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A
Abbreviation	Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Mol. Integr. Physiol.
ISSN (print)	1095-6433
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology Physiology