How to format your references using the Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology (CBAB). 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

Gewin V (2007) The global challenge. Nature 447: 348–349.

A journal article with 2 authors

Outten CE and O’Halloran TV (2001) Femtomolar sensitivity of metalloregulatory proteins controlling zinc homeostasis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 292: 2488–2492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lazzerini GM, Strambini LM and Barillaro G (2013) Addressing reliability and degradation of chemitransistor sensors by electrical tuning of the sensitivity. Scientific reports 3: 1161.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Geddes CGR, Toth CS, Van Tilborg J, Esarey E, Schroeder CB, Bruhwiler D, Nieter C, Cary J and Leemans WP (2004) High-quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator using plasma-channel guiding. Nature 431: 538–541.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beagle JR (2013) Surgical Essentials of Immediate Implant Dentistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Kapur S and Erşahin S (eds) (2014) Soil Security for Ecosystem Management: Mediterranean Soil Ecosystems 1. Springer International Publishing, Cham, XII, 167 p. 57 illus., 37 illus. in colorp.

A chapter in an edited book

Bhattacharyya S and Maulik U (2013) Binary Object Extraction by Bidirectional Self-Organizing Neural Network Architecture. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p. 109–158. In Maulik U (ed) Soft Computing for Image and Multimedia Data Processing.

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 Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Active Volcano On Reunion Island Erupts For Third Time In 2015. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at <https://www.iflscience.com/environment/active-volcano-reunion-islands-erupts-third-time-2015/> Accessed on 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

Government Accountability Office (1980) NIH Biomedical Research Support Grant Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garcia-Benitez C (2010) Support program to facilitate achievement for emancipated foster youth to succeed in college. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Brantley B (2017) Sam Shepard, Roaming Utterly Wild. p. C2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Outten and O’Halloran 2001, Gewin 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Outten and O’Halloran 2001)
Three or more authors: (Geddes et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology
Abbreviation	Crop Breed. Appl. Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)	1518-7853
ISSN (online)	1984-7033
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