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) Count on it. Nature 445: 946–947.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peck JR and Waxman D (2000) Mutation and sex in a competitive world. Nature 406: 399–404.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoo HI, Barsoum MW and El-Raghy T (2000) Ti3SiC2 has negligible thermopower. Nature 407: 581–582.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Osborn KJ, Haddock SHD, Pleijel F, Madin LP and Rouse GW (2009) Deep-sea, swimming worms with luminescent “bombs.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325: 964.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gao J (2010) Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit Design and Device Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hirose K and Tao J (eds) (2015) Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis: Modeling and generation of prosody for high quality and flexible speech synthesis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, VIII, 213 p. 60 illus. in colorp.

A chapter in an edited book

Alaniz J (2016) Standing Orders: Oracle, Disability, and Retconning. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, p. 59–79. In Foss C, Gray JW, and Whalen Z (eds) Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives.

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 (2014) Could Megalodon Still Live In The Deep Ocean? IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/could-megalodon-still-live-deep-ocean/> 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 (1985) Contracting Out: NASA Not Complying With OMB Circular A-76. 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

Royalty AR (2015) U.S. Military Advisors in Iraq: A Phenomenological Research Study on the Role of National Culture on Tactical Decision-making during Wartime. George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Garland SB (2016) Writing a Memoir and Seeing Pain Give Way to Peace. p. B1.

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 (Peck and Waxman 2000, Gewin 2007).

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

Two authors: (Peck and Waxman 2000)
Three or more authors: (Osborn et al. 2009)

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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