How to format your references using the Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture. 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

1. Katsnelson A. Drug development: The modelling challenge. Nature. 2014;508:S8-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jaffe M, Allam S. POLYMER CHEMISTRY. Safer fuels by integrating polymer theory into design. Science. 2015;350:32.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kislev ME, Hartmann A, Bar-Yosef O. Early domesticated fig in the Jordan Valley. Science. 2006;312:1372–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Murase K, Hirano Y, Sun T-P, Hakoshima T. Gibberellin-induced DELLA recognition by the gibberellin receptor GID1. Nature. 2008;456:459–63.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Todinov MT. Reliability and Risk Models. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Fütterer DK, Damaske D, Kleinschmidt G, Miller H, Tessensohn F, editors. Antarctica: Contributions to Global Earth Sciences. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wyche KP, Whyte C, Blake RS, Cordell RL, Willis KA, Ellis AM, et al. Atmospheric Monitoring With Chemical Ionisation Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (CIR-TOF-MS) and Future Developments: Hadamard Transform Mass Spectrometry. In: Kim YJ, Platt U, editors. Advanced Environmental Monitoring. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008. p. 64–76.

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 Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. The Life-Changing Love Of One Of The 20th Century’s Greatest Physicists [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/life-changing-love-one-20th-century-s-greatest-physicists/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Global Warming: Limitations of General Circulation Models and Costs of Modeling Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 Jul. Report No.: RCED-95-164.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Calhoun GF. Limit theory for overfit models [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 2009.

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

1. Hollander S. Staten Island Wins Championship of Class A League Again. New York Times. 2002 Sep 13;D3.

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	Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture
Abbreviation	Chem. Biol. Technol. Agric.
ISSN (online)	2196-5641
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