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

Lieberman, P. Neuroscience. Synapses, Language, and Being Human. Science 2013, 342, 944–945.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bouibes, A.; Zaoui, A. High-Pressure Polymorphs of ZnCO₃: Evolutionary Crystal Structure Prediction. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5172.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baier, D.B.; Gatesy, S.M.; Jenkins, F.A. A Critical Ligamentous Mechanism in the Evolution of Avian Flight. Nature 2007, 445, 307–310.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

de Pater, I.; Hammel, H.B.; Gibbard, S.G.; Showalter, M.R. New Dust Belts of Uranus: One Ring, Two Ring, Red Ring, Blue Ring. Science 2006, 312, 92–94.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGrath, A.E. Luther’s Theology of the Cross; Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2011; ISBN 9781119995999.

An edited book

Yamada, S. OSS Reliability Measurement and Assessment; Tamura, Y., Ed.; Springer Series in Reliability Engineering; 1st ed. 2016.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; ISBN 9783319318172.

A chapter in an edited book

Demant, C.; Garnica, C.; Streicher-Abel, B. Mark Identification. In Industrial Image Processing: Visual Quality Control in Manufacturing; Streicher-Abel, B., Garnica, C., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; pp. 113–150 ISBN 9783642339042.

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

Andrew, D. Humans Are Still Evolving But In Ways That Might Surprise You Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/humans-are-still-evolving-but-in-ways-that-might-surprise-you/ (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 Next Generation Air Transportation System: Status of Systems Acquisition and the Transition to the Next Generation Air Transportation System; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2008;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Siczek, M.M. Negotiating Socioacademic Space: The Lived Experience of International Second-Language Students in a Mainstream First-Year Writing Course. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2014.

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

Ryerson, J. University Presses. New York Times 2017, BR35.

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
Scope