How to format your references using the Comptes rendus - Biologies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Comptes rendus - Biologies. 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

[1]

S. Nee, The great chain of being, Nature. 435 (2005) 429.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K. Kurotobi, Y. Murata, A single molecule of water encapsulated in fullerene C₆₀, Science. 333 (2011) 613–616.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Weiner, I. Sagi, L. Addadi, Structural biology. Choosing the crystallization path less traveled, Science. 309 (2005) 1027–1028.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.A. Kennedy, F. Barabé, A.G. Poeppl, J.C.Y. Wang, J.E. Dick, Comment on “Tumor growth need not be driven by rare cancer stem cells,” Science. 318 (2007) 1722; author reply 1722.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Sofronas, Analytical Troubleshooting of Process Machinery and Pressure Vessels, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

M. Glinz, P. Heymans, eds., Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality: 15th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 8-9, 2009 Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. Vullo, F. Vivio, Hyperbolic Disks, in: F. Vivio (Ed.), Rotors: Stress Analysis and Design, Springer, Milano, 2013: pp. 71–87.

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 Comptes rendus - Biologies.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, Worried Your Emails Might Be Spied On? Here’s What You Can Do, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worried-your-emails-might-be-spied-on-heres-what-you-can-do/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Amtrak Management: Systemic Problems Require Actions to Improve Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Accountability, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.M. Gatti, Genome-wide analysis of transcriptional regulation in the murine liver, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 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

[1]

M. Pilon, The 400: Aching to Win, New York Times. (2012) SP1.

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	Comptes rendus - Biologies
Abbreviation	C. R. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1631-0691
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Immunology and Microbiology General Medicine