How to format your references using the Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 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]

Brumfiel G. US societies unite in plea for boost to research budgets. Nature 2003;421:100.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Thursby J, Thursby M. Research and development. Where is the new science in corporate R&D? Science 2006;314:1547–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kokoouline V, Greene CH, Esry BD. Mechanism for the destruction of H+3 ions by electron impact. Nature 2001;412:891–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Chai J, Du C, Wu JW, Kyin S, Wang X, Shi Y. Structural and biochemical basis of apoptotic activation by Smac/DIABLO. Nature 2000;406:855–62.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kuo SM, Lee BH, Tian W. Real-Time Digital Signal Processing. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Ward A. Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Homsirikamol E, Morawiecki P, Rogawski M, Srebrny M. Security Margin Evaluation of SHA-3 Contest Finalists through SAT-Based Attacks. In: Cortesi A, Chaki N, Saeed K, Wierzchoń S, editors. Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management: 11th IFIP TC 8 International Conference, CISIM 2012, Venice, Italy, September 26-28, 2012. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 56–67.

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 Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. Scientists Reveal How To Erase Painful Memories. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-find-way-erase-memories/ (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. Federal Communications Commission: Facilitate the Development and Use of the Universal Licensing System in the Wireless Telecommunications Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Johnson C. Directed blogging with community college ESL students: Its effects on awareness of language acquisition processes. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2012.

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]

Dolnick B. Cold Showers. New York Times 2017:MM26.

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	Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
Abbreviation	Comput. Struct. Biotechnol. J.
ISSN (print)	2001-0370
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Biotechnology Genetics Structural Biology Computer Science Applications