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

Norreys, P.A. Physics. Complexity in Fusion Plasmas. Science 2008, 319, 1193–1194.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mellman, I.; Clausen, B.E. Immunology. Beta-Catenin Balances Immunity. Science 2010, 329, 767–769.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, L.Y.; Luo, X.; Wang, X. Endonuclease G Is an Apoptotic DNase When Released from Mitochondria. Nature 2001, 412, 95–99.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Perdomo, D.; Baron, B.; Rojo-Domínguez, A.; Raynal, B.; England, P.; Guillén, N. The α-Helical Regions of KERP1 Are Important in Entamoeba Histolytica Adherence to Human Cells. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1171.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mitola, J., III Software Radio Architecture; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: New York, USA, 2002; ISBN 9780471216643.

An edited book

Politics and Legitimacy in Post-Soviet Eurasia; Brusis, M., Ahrens, J., Wessel, M.S., Eds.; Palgrave Macmillan UK: London, 2016; ISBN 9781349569281.

A chapter in an edited book

Palmaz, S.; Cuadros, M.; Etchegoyhen, T. Statistically-Guided Controlled Language Authoring. In Controlled Natural Language: 5th International Workshop, CNL 2016, Aberdeen, UK, July 25-27, 2016, Proceedings; Davis, B., Pace, G.J., Wyner, A., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 37–47 ISBN 9783319414973.

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

Hamilton, K. Brazil’s Sewage Woes Reflect The Growing Global Water Quality Crisis Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/brazils-sewage-woes-reflect-the-growing-global-water-quality-crisis/ (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 Perkins Student Loans: Need for Better Controls Over Loans Recovered From Closed Schools; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1991;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Belic, B. Complement Verb Variation in Present-Day Serbian. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, 2005.

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. Is There a Little Bistro Inside All That Construction? New York Times 2002, 147.

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