How to format your references using the Channels citation style

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

Peplow M. Catalysis: The accelerator. Nature 2013; 495:S10-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dutton A, Lambeck K. Ice volume and sea level during the last interglacial. Science 2012; 337:216–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bleichert F, Botchan MR, Berger JM. Crystal structure of the eukaryotic origin recognition complex. Nature 2015; 519:321–6.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Faulkner DR, Mitchell TM, Healy D, Heap MJ. Slip on “weak” faults by the rotation of regional stress in the fracture damage zone. Nature 2006; 444:922–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rios Insua D, Ruggeri F, Wiper MP. Bayesian Analysis of Stochastic Process Models: Ruggeri/Bayesian Analysis of Stochastic Process Models. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Dössel O, Schlegel WC, editors. World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/5 Information and Communication in Medicine, Telemedicine and e-Health. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Faridi S. A Good Leaf Order on Simplicial Trees. In: Cooper SM, Sather-Wagstaff S, editors. Connections Between Algebra, Combinatorics, and Geometry. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. page 191–207.

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 Channels.

Blog post

Fang J. Male Spiders Perform Oral Sex On Females [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/male-spiders-perform-oral-sex-females/

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. Charter Schools: Education Could Do More to Assist Charter Schools with Applying for Discretionary Grants. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Holvick-Norton T. Becoming Whole: The Process of Individuation for Women and Their Bodies. 2015;

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

Marx L. Elizabeth Greig and Jason Extein. New York Times2010; :ST15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Channels
Abbreviation	Channels (Austin)
ISSN (print)	1933-6950
ISSN (online)	1933-6969
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics