How to format your references using the Antibodies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Antibodies. 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 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

Feldman, D.E. Physics. Electronically Erased. Science 2014, 344, 1344–1345.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zijlstra, A.A.; Davis, R.J. Retrospective. Sir Bernard Lovell (1913-2012). Science 2012, 337, 1307.

A journal article with 3 authors

Del Toro-De León, G.; García-Aguilar, M.; Gillmor, C.S. Non-Equivalent Contributions of Maternal and Paternal Genomes to Early Plant Embryogenesis. Nature 2014, 514, 624–627.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yu, J.-K.; Satou, Y.; Holland, N.D.; Shin-I, T.; Kohara, Y.; Satoh, N.; Bronner-Fraser, M.; Holland, L.Z. Axial Patterning in Cephalochordates and the Evolution of the Organizer. Nature 2007, 445, 613–617.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wood, T.; Anderson, M.; Analytics, F. The Commercial Real Estate Tsunami; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010; ISBN 9781118268254.

An edited book

Encyclopedia of Public Health; Kirch, W., Ed.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2008; ISBN 9781402056130.

A chapter in an edited book

Yates, S.M. Professional Competencies: Perspectives and Challenges for the Tertiary Sector. In International Perspectives on Competence in the Workplace: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice; Velde, C.R., Ed.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2009; pp. 87–99 ISBN 9781402087530.

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 Antibodies.

Blog post

Taub, B. Trilobites Migrated Across The Ocean Floor In Single File Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/trilobites-migrated-across-ocean-floor-single-file/ (accessed on 30 October 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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Planned Use of Information Technology for the Space Station; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1987;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson, B.D. Application of Systems Engineering Principles for Analysis of Utility Baseline Development Process. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Grynbaum, M.M. Right-Wing Provocateur Is Given More Fodder for His Conspiracies. New York Times 2017, A15.

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	Antibodies
Abbreviation	Antibodies (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2073-4468
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