How to format your references using the Journal of Chemical Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Chemical 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	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

Sosnick TR (2004) Comment on “Force-clamp spectroscopy monitors the folding trajectory of a single protein.” Science 306:411; author reply 411

A journal article with 2 authors

Stoeckle MY, Coffran C (2013) TreeParser-aided Klee diagrams display taxonomic clusters in DNA barcode and nuclear gene datasets. Sci Rep 3:2635

A journal article with 3 authors

Shcherbina AY, Talley LD, Rudnick DL (2003) Direct observations of North Pacific ventilation: brine rejection in the Okhotsk Sea. Science 302:1952–1955

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gilijamse JJ, Hoekstra S, van de Meerakker SYT, et al (2006) Near-threshold inelastic collisions using molecular beams with a tunable velocity. Science 313:1617–1620

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gostick A, Elton C (2006) Führen mit Möhren. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Lin S, Huang X (2011) Advanced Research on Computer Education, Simulation and Modeling: International Conference, CESM 2011, Wuhan, China, June 18-19, 2011. Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Pendhari SS, Kant T, Desai Y (2015) 2D Stress Analysis of Functionally Graded Beam Under Static Loading Condition. In: Matsagar V (ed) Advances in Structural Engineering: Mechanics, Volume One. Springer India, New Delhi, pp 35–42

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 Journal of Chemical Biology.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2017) Two Scientists Contemplate If Aliens Are Behind Fast Radio Bursts. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/two-scientists-contemplate-if-aliens-are-behind-fast-radio-bursts/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2005) Financial Audit: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Fiscal Year 2004 Management Representation Letter on Its Financial Statements. 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

Herman GS (2013) Terahertz local oscillator via difference frequency generation in iii-v semiconductors using frequency stabilized lasers. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Poniewozik J (2017) A Gadget to Slow-Cook, and One to Fast-Forward. New York Times B7

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	Journal of Chemical Biology
Abbreviation	J. Chem. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1864-6158
ISSN (online)	1864-6166
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Cell Biology