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The Journal of Biological Chemistry Citation Generator
Generate references in The Journal of Biological Chemistry from a DOI or link in seconds. CitApp renders this style with citeproc, the same engine as Zotero and Mendeley, so every comma matches the spec. Free for students, no sign-up to try.
What The Journal of Biological Chemistry reference looks like
The Journal of Biological Chemistry is a numeric style: sources are cited with a bracketed or superscript number in the order they first appear, and the reference list is numbered to match.
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Journal article
1. Babonis, L. S., and Martindale, M. Q. (2022) A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS. 119, e2113701119
Book
1. Kuhn, T. S. (1970) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of Chicago Press
Web page
1. IPCC (2021) Climate change 2021: the physical science basis. [online] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/ (Accessed July 15, 2026)
Journal article with 26 authors
1. Harris, C. R., Millman, K. J., van der Walt, S. J., Gommers, R., Virtanen, P., Cournapeau, D., Wieser, E., Taylor, J., Berg, S., Smith, N. J., Kern, R., Picus, M., Hoyer, S., van Kerkwijk, M. H., Brett, M., Haldane, A., del Río, J. F., Wiebe, M., Peterson, P., Gérard-Marchant, P., Sheppard, K., Reddy, T., Weckesser, W., Abbasi, H., Gohlke, C., and Oliphant, T. E. (2020) Array programming with NumPy. Nature. 585, 357–362
The Journal of Biological Chemistry at a glance
Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.
- Used mainly in biology.
- In the text, the first source is cited as (1).
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
- First names are shortened to initials.
- The reference leaves the DOI out.
- Web pages include the date you accessed them.
- The reference list is numbered in the order sources are first cited.
- The style file was last updated in December 2014.
The guide this style follows: jbc.org
How The Journal of Biological Chemistry compares with Trends journals
Where The Journal of Biological Chemistry differs:
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
The same journal article in Trends journals
1. Babonis, L.S. and Martindale, M.Q. (2022) A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS 119, e2113701119
Frequently asked questions
How many authors does The Journal of Biological Chemistry list?
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
How does The Journal of Biological Chemistry handle DOIs and web pages?
The reference leaves the DOI out. Web pages include the date you accessed them.
How is the reference list ordered in The Journal of Biological Chemistry?
The reference list is numbered in the order sources are first cited.
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