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

Alvarez M (2007) System-ready scientists. Nature 447: 612.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lotti M and Nicotera P (2002) Toxicology: a risky business. Nature 416: 481.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu WW, Mazor O and Wilson RI (2015) Thermosensory processing in the Drosophila brain. Nature 519: 353–357.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shi J, Krishnamoorthy G, Yang Y, Hu L, Chaturvedi N, Harilal D, Qin J and Cui J (2002) Mechanism of magnesium activation of calcium-activated potassium channels. Nature 418: 876–880.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tsui JB-Y (2004) Fundamentals of Global Positioning System Receivers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wong KW, Mendis BSU and Bouzerdoum A (eds) (2010) Neural Information Processing. Theory and Algorithms: 17th International Conference, ICONIP 2010, Sydney, Australia, November 22-25, 2010, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XXVI, 718 p. 288 illus., 143 illus. in colorp.

A chapter in an edited book

Li F, Hadjileftheriou M, Kollios G and Reyzin L (2008) Authenticated Index Structures for Outsourced Databases. Springer US, Boston, MA, p. 115–136. In Gertz M and Jajodia S (eds) Handbook of Database Security: Applications and Trends.

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

Andrews R (2016) Liquid Gallium Meets A Bluetooth Speaker And A Freaky Dance Ensues. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at <https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/liquid-gallium-meets-bluetooth-speaker-freaky-dance-ensues/> 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 (2016) Commercial Space Launch Insurance: Views Differ on Need for Change to Insurance Approach but Clarification Is Needed. 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

Shendge PN (2017) Improvement in Estimation of Carrier Frequency Offset in Wireless Networks. 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

Walsh MW (2015) Rebooting Pensions. p. F14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alvarez 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Lotti and Nicotera 2002, Alvarez 2007).

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

Two authors: (Lotti and Nicotera 2002)
Three or more authors: (Shi et al. 2002)

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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