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

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

Gouverneur, V., 2009. Chemistry. A new departure in fluorination chemistry. Science 325, 1630–1631.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moreno, N.P., Erdmann, D.B., 2010. SPORE: Science Prize for Online Resources in Education. Addressing science teacher needs. Science 327, 1589–1590.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith, M.H., Ploegh, H.L., Weissman, J.S., 2011. Road to ruin: targeting proteins for degradation in the endoplasmic reticulum. Science 334, 1086–1090.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Viola, L., Fortunato, E.M., Pravia, M.A., Knill, E., Laflamme, R., Cory, D.G., 2001. Experimental realization of noiseless subsystems for quantum information processing. Science 293, 2059–2063.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stoican, F., Olaru, S., 2013. Set-theoretic Fault-tolerant Control in Multisensor Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Chiappelli, F. (Ed.), 2012. Comparative Effectiveness and Efficacy Research and Analysis for Practice (CEERAP): Applications in Health Care. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Dong, L., Chen, K., 2012. Informal Analysis Schemes of Cryptographic Protocols, in: Chen, K. (Ed.), Cryptographic Protocol: Security Analysis Based on Trusted Freshness. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 83–152.

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 B.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. It’s Official: One Joint Of Cannabis Makes You Lazy … But Only In The Short Term [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/its-official-one-joint-of-cannabis-makes-you-lazy-but-only-in-the-short-term/ (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, 1993. High Speed Ground Transportation: Financing Issues (No. T-RCED-93-14). 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

Doyle, J.J., 2012. Under the influence: High risk social networks and recidivism (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

Clarey, C., 2016. Open Champion Shows Vulnerability Off the Court, Not on It. New York Times B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gouverneur, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Gouverneur, 2009; Moreno and Erdmann, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Moreno and Erdmann, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Viola et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part B
Abbreviation	Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B Biochem. Mol. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1096-4959
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology Physiology