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. Schmerr N. The Gutenberg discontinuity: melt at the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary. Science. 2012;335:1480–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Li R, Wang Y. Neural mechanism for sensing fast motion in dim light. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3159.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Séguin B, Singer PA, Daar AS. Science community: scientific diasporas. Science. 2006;312:1602–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Korzhnev DM, Salvatella X, Vendruscolo M, Di Nardo AA, Davidson AR, Dobson CM, et al. Low-populated folding intermediates of Fyn SH3 characterized by relaxation dispersion NMR. Nature. 2004;430:586–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Fight A. Understanding International Bank Risk. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2004.

An edited book

1. Bove A, Del Santo D, Murthy MKV, editors. Advances in Phase Space Analysis of Partial Differential Equations: In Honor of Ferruccio Colombini’s 60th Birthday. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Mills PR. Folk Housing in the Middle of the Pacific: Architectural Lime, Creolized Ideologies, and Expressions of Power in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii. In: White C, editor. The Materiality of Individuality: Archaeological Studies of Individual Lives. New York, NY: Springer US; 2009. p. 75–91.

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. Hamilton K. How Breast Milk Could Help Prevent The Antibiotic Apocalypse [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-breast-milk-could-help-prevent-the-antibiotic-apocalypse/

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. College Savings: Information on State Tuition Prepayment Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 Aug. Report No.: HEHS-95-131.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gunhan-Senol NE. “I’m Turkish, I’m Honest...” I’m Autistic: Perceptions Regarding the Label of Autism [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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

1. Leland J. Faith and Family, in Transition. New York Times. 2017 Jun 16;MB1.

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
Scope

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