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]

D. Spurgeon, Scientists call for Canada to boost polar-shelf funding, Nature. 421 (2003) 464.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

I. Koren, G. Feingold, Adaptive behavior of marine cellular clouds, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2507.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Togashi, H. Sasaki, J. Yoshimura, A geometrical approach explains Lake Ball (Marimo) formations in the green alga, Aegagropila linnaei, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3761.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Kruhlak, E.E. Crouch, M. Orlov, C. Montaño, S.A. Gorski, A. Nussenzweig, T. Misteli, R.D. Phair, R. Casellas, The ATM repair pathway inhibits RNA polymerase I transcription in response to chromosome breaks, Nature. 447 (2007) 730–734.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K.R. Baker, Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

D.S. Yeung, Z.-Q. Liu, X.-Z. Wang, H. Yan, eds., Advances in Machine Learning and Cybernetics: 4th International Conference, ICMLC 2005, Guangzhou, China, August 18-21, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.-R. Zhou, J.W. Erdman, Soy Consumption and Cancer Prevention, in: A. Bendich, R.J. Deckelbaum (Eds.), Preventive Nutrition: The Comprehensive Guide for Health Professionals, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2005: pp. 123–155.

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]

A. Carpineti, Lasers And Bubbles Can Create 3D Images In Liquid, IFLScience. (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/lasers-and-bubbles-can-create-3d-images-in-liquid/ (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, 21st Century Challenges: Reexamining the Base of the Federal Government, 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. Gilkes, Multiple modes of Mdmx regulation affect p53 activation, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2008.

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]

B. Brantley, A ‘Hamlet’ Poised Between Two Worlds, New York Times. (2017) C5.

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

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