How to format your references using the International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 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

Humphries, C., 2013. Adoptive cell therapy: Honing that killer instinct. Nature 504, S13-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peers, G., Price, N.M., 2006. Copper-containing plastocyanin used for electron transport by an oceanic diatom. Nature 441, 341–344.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oxborrow, M., Breeze, J.D., Alford, N.M., 2012. Room-temperature solid-state maser. Nature 488, 353–356.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mecklenbräuker, I., Saijo, K., Zheng, N.-Y., Leitges, M., Tarakhovsky, A., 2002. Protein kinase Cdelta controls self-antigen-induced B-cell tolerance. Nature 416, 860–865.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paret, D., 2012. Flexray and its Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Wood, P.R., 2009. Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery in Clinical Practice. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Mostaghim, S., Teich, J., 2005. Quad-trees: A Data Structure for Storing Pareto Sets in Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms with Elitism, in: Abraham, A., Jain, L., Goldberg, R. (Eds.), Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Theoretical Advances and Applications, Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London, pp. 81–104.

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 International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017. Earliest Evidence Of Human Impact On Geological Processes Is 11,500 Years Old [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, 2015. Drug-Impaired Driving: Additional Support Needed for Public Awareness Initiatives (No. GAO-15-293). 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

Lastica, J.R., 2012. Why Do They Stay? A Phenomenological Study of Secondary Science Teacher Experiences (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Kelly, M., 1994. The President’s Past. New York Times 620.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Humphries, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Humphries, 2013; Peers and Price, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Peers and Price, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Mecklenbräuker et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Biochem. Cell Biol.
ISSN (print)	1357-2725
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology