How to format your references using the Advances in Biological Regulation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Biological Regulation. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Campbell, C.T., 2003. Surface science. Waltzing with O2. Science 299, 357.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dandekar, P., Doherty, M.F., 2014. Materials science. Imaging crystallization. Science 344, 705–706.

A journal article with 3 authors

Doeller, C.F., Barry, C., Burgess, N., 2010. Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network. Nature 463, 657–661.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mysterud, A., Stenseth, N.C., Yoccoz, N.G., Langvatn, R., Steinheim, G., 2001. Nonlinear effects of large-scale climatic variability on wild and domestic herbivores. Nature 410, 1096–1099.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sugirtharajah, R.S., 2011. Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Elhanany, I., Hamdi, M. (Eds.), 2007. High-performance Packet Switching Architectures. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Baget, J.F., Benferhat, S., Bouraoui, Z., Croitoru, M., Mugnier, M.-L., Papini, O., Rocher, S., Tabia, K., 2016. Inconsistency-Tolerant Query Answering: Rationality Properties and Computational Complexity Analysis, in: Michael, L., Kakas, A. (Eds.), Logics in Artificial Intelligence: 15th European Conference, JELIA 2016, Larnaca, Cyprus, November 9-11, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 64–80.

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 Advances in Biological Regulation.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Beetle Runs Faster Than Sight [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/beetle-runs-faster-sight/ (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, 1999. Mass Transit: Status of New Starts Transit Projects With Full Funding Grant Agreements (No. RCED-99-240). 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

Kao, C.H., 2012. Community mental health care for Chinese Americans: A grant proposal (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

Crane, A.T., Hay, G., Larsen, P.T., 2011. Mortgage Market Due for Overhaul. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Campbell, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Campbell, 2003; Dandekar and Doherty, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Dandekar and Doherty, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Mysterud et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Biological Regulation
Abbreviation	Adv. Biol. Regul.
ISSN (print)	2212-4926
Scope	Cancer Research Genetics Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine