How to format your references using the Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology citation style

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

Kopetz, H. (2013). Renewable resources: Build a biomass energy market. Nature, 494(7435), 29–31.

A journal article with 2 authors

Friend, S. H., & Schadt, E. E. (2014). Translational genomics. Clues from the resilient. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6187), 970–972.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weiss, K. M., Miguel-Sanchez, J., & Elzerman, J. M. (2013). Magnetically tunable singlet-triplet spin qubit in a four-electron InGaAs coupled quantum dot. Scientific reports, 3, 3121.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Puentes, G., Waldherr, G., Neumann, P., Balasubramanian, G., & Wrachtrup, J. (2014). Efficient route to high-bandwidth nanoscale magnetometry using single spins in diamond. Scientific reports, 4, 4677.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tsai, C. S. (2006). Biomacromolecules. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tajalli, A. (2010). Extreme Low-Power Mixed Signal IC Design: Subthreshold Source-Coupled Circuits. (Y. Leblebici, Ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, W., Chen, L., Jie, J., Zhao, Y., & Zhang, J. (2012). A Novel Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Flow Shop Scheduling Problems. In D.-S. Huang, Y. Gan, P. Gupta, & M. M. Gromiha (Eds.), Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications. With Aspects of Artificial Intelligence: 7th International Conference, ICIC 2011, Zhengzhou, China, August 11-14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 24–31). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, August 31). New Species Of Pterosaur Is A Near-Perfect Intermediate Form Between First And Final Species. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-pterosaur-nearperfect-intermediate-form-between-first-final-species/

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. (1996). CEC Sale of Federal Spectrum (No. NSIAD-97-40R). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dias, J. (2014). Factors associated with poor oral health among older adults (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kelly, M. (1994, November 27). IN GAZA, PEACE MEETS PATHOLOGY. New York Times, p. 656.

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	Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Abbreviation	Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)	0273-2289
ISSN (online)	1559-0291
Scope	Biochemistry Biotechnology Molecular Biology Bioengineering Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology General Medicine