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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Barabási, A.-L. The Origin of Bursts and Heavy Tails in Human Dynamics. Nature 2005, 435, 207–211.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lo, M.-T.; Lee, W.-C. Detecting a Weak Association by Testing Its Multiple Perturbations: A Data Mining Approach. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5081.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brose, U.; Williams, R.J.; Martinez, N.D. Comment on “Foraging Adaptation and the Relationship between Food-Web Complexity and Stability.” Science 2003, 301, 918; author reply 918.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bai, Y.; Bi, H.; Zhuang, Y.; Liu, C.; Cai, T.; Liu, X.; Zhang, X.; Liu, T.; Ma, Y. Production of Salidroside in Metabolically Engineered Escherichia Coli. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6640.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Picard, F.; Tanguy, C. Innovations and Techno-Ecological Transition; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2016; ISBN 9781119185772.

An edited book

Smart Colloidal Materials; Richtering, W., Ed.; Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006; Vol. 133; ISBN 9783540327011.

A chapter in an edited book

Lissoni, P. Melatonin in Human Cancer: Therapeutic Possibilities. In Melatonin and Melatonergic Drugs in Clinical Practice; Srinivasan, V., Brzezinski, A., Oter, S., Shillcutt, S.D., Eds.; Springer India: New Delhi, 2014; pp. 43–56 ISBN 9788132208242.

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, E. Mining For Metals In Society’s Waste Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mining-metals-society-s-waste/ (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 FTS 2000: Status and Mandatory Use; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1993;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Aldaco, R. Latinas Attainment of Higher Education: What Factors Contribute to Their Success? Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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

Burghardt, L.F. An Animal Sanctuary Is Under Pressure to Move. New York Times 2006, 14NJ6.

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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