How to format your references using the Computational Biology and Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational Biology and Chemistry. 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

Gray, R., 2005. Evolution. Pushing the time barrier in the quest for language roots. Science 309, 2007–2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kippenberg, T.J., Vahala, K.J., 2008. Cavity optomechanics: back-action at the mesoscale. Science 321, 1172–1176.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dong, X., Wang, Y., Xia, Y., 2014. Re-building Daniell cell with a Li-ion exchange film. Sci. Rep. 4, 6916.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, L., Guo, L., Li, Z., Zhang, H., Lin, J., Huang, J., Jin, S., Chen, X., 2013. Towards intrinsic magnetism of graphene sheets with irregular zigzag edges. Sci. Rep. 3, 2599.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Courant, R., McShane, E.J., 1988. Differential and Integral Calculus. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dua, S., Gangopadhyay, A., Thulasiraman, P., Straccia, U., Shepherd, M., Stein, B. (Eds.), 2012. Information Systems, Technology and Management: 6th International Conference, ICISTM 2012, Grenoble, France, March 28-30, 2012. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Swami, R., Kumar, D., Khan, W., Sistla, R., Shastri, N., 2014. Polymer–Drug Conjugate in Focal Drug Delivery, in: Domb, A.J., Khan, W. (Eds.), Focal Controlled Drug Delivery, Advances in Delivery Science and Technology. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 117–147.

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 Computational Biology and Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2013. Wolf Howling [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2016. Transportation Security: Status of GAO Recommendations on TSA’s Security-Related Technology Acquisitions (No. GAO-16-176). 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

O’Neal, L., 2016. What’s in Your Toolbox?: Examining Tool Choices at Two Middle and Late Woodland-Period Sites on Florida’s Central Gulf Coast (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

Rothenberg, B., 2017. A Juniors Defeat Doesn’t Dampen A Traveler’s Stay. New York Times B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gray, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Gray, 2005; Kippenberg and Vahala, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Kippenberg and Vahala, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computational Biology and Chemistry
Abbreviation	Comput. Biol. Chem.
ISSN (print)	1476-9271
Scope	Biochemistry Structural Biology Organic Chemistry Computational Mathematics