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

Bowles, S., 2008. Being human: Conflict: Altruism’s midwife. Nature 456, 326–327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Beasley, A.J., Schreier, E.J., 2012. Astronomy: The United States must rejoin the SKA. Nature 489, 363.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, L., Leung, E.L.-H., Tian, X., 2011. Perspective: The clinical trial barriers. Nature 480, S100.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jiang, N., Bao, Z., Zhang, X., Hirochika, H., Eddy, S.R., McCouch, S.R., Wessler, S.R., 2003. An active DNA transposon family in rice. Nature 421, 163–167.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pompian, M.M., 2009. Advising Ultra-Affluent Clients and Family Offices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ahrendt, W., Beckert, B., Bubel, R., Hähnle, R., Schmitt, P.H., Ulbrich, M. (Eds.), 2016. Deductive Software Verification – The KeY Book: From Theory to Practice, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Chizzolini, B., 2008. National and Regional Econometric Models, in: Camagni, R., Chizzolini, B., Fratesi, U. (Eds.), Modelling Regional Scenarios for the Enlarged Europe: European Competiveness and Global Strategies, Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 69–82.

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

Taub, B., 2016. Was The Indus Valley Civilization Really A Non-Violent, Egalitarian Utopia? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/indus-valley-civilization-really-non-violent-egalitarian-utopia/ (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, 1978. Reasons for Funding Selected Entitlements Programs by Other Than 1-Year Appropriations (No. PAD-78-46b). 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

Seegmiller Renner, A., 2017. Empathy Development Through Role Modeling: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Experiences (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Crow, K., 2001. Fireman’s Spirit Is the Wind Beneath a Bird’s Wings. New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bowles, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Beasley and Schreier, 2012; Bowles, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Beasley and Schreier, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Jiang et al., 2003)

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