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

Adam D (2002) Royal Institution’s director blasts scientific sexism. Nature 420: 453.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kennel C and Dressler A (2014) Space science. Coping with uncertainty in space science planning. Science (New York, N.Y.) 343: 140–141.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song YQ, Ryu S and Sen PN (2000) Determining multiple length scales in rocks. Nature 406: 178–181.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Banino A, Barry C, Uria B, Blundell C, Lillicrap T, Mirowski P, Pritzel A, Chadwick MJ, Degris T, Modayil J, Wayne G, Soyer H, Viola F, Zhang B, Goroshin R, Rabinowitz N, Pascanu R, Beattie C, Petersen S, Sadik A, Gaffney S, King H, Kavukcuoglu K, Hassabis D, Hadsell R and Kumaran D (2018) Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in artificial agents. Nature 557: 429–433.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duchon C and Hale R (2012) Time Series Analysis in Meteorology and Climatology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Semmler W and Schwaiger M (eds) (2008) Molecular Imaging I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XXVII, 280 p. 132 illus., 51 illus. in colorp.

A chapter in an edited book

Habir M (2016) Indonesia’s Bank Governance Trend Post-1998 Crisis. Springer International Publishing, Cham, p. 45–63. In Verhezen P, Williamson I, Crosby M, and Soebagjo N (eds) Doing Business in ASEAN Markets: Leadership Challenges and Governance Solutions across Asian Borders.

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

Fang J (2014) First Sighting of Gigantic Energy Buildup Confirms Solar Flare Models. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at <https://www.iflscience.com/space/first-sighting-gigantic-energy-buildup-confirms-solar-flare-models/> 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 (1968) Need To Improve System for Managing Capitalized Equipment in the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 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

McCafferty B (2009) Chalk Talk. University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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 (2011) Tallying the Financial Aftermath: Japan Government Likely To Bear Big Monetary Loss. p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Adam 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Adam 2002, Kennel and Dressler 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kennel and Dressler 2014)
Three or more authors: (Banino et al. 2018)

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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