How to format your references using the Cryobiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cryobiology. 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	Download the output style file
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]

M. Ohman, Biochemistry. A cold editor makes the adaptation, Science 335 (2012) 805–806.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.A. Stark, K. Pompei, Winner of Science Prize for Online Resources in Education. Making genetics easy to understand, Science 327 (2010) 538–539.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.C. Weaver, T.E. Vaughan, R.D. Astumian, Biological sensing of small field differences by magnetically sensitive chemical reactions, Nature 405 (2000) 707–709.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Fan, K. Yang, D.M. Boye, T. Sigmon, K.J. Malloy, H. Xu, G.P. López, C.J. Brinker, Self-assembly of ordered, robust, three-dimensional gold nanocrystal/silica arrays, Science 304 (2004) 567–571.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Fliszár, Atomic Charges, Bond Properties, and Molecular Energies, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

L. Yang, On-Orbit Operations Optimization: Modeling and Algorithms, Springer, New York, NY, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G.B. Potter, J.C. Gibbs, M. Robbins, P.E. Langdon, Equipping with Skills to Manage Anger and Correct Thinking Errors, in: J.C. Gibbs, M. Robbins, P.E. Langdon (Eds.), A Comprehensive Cognitive Behavioral Program for Offenders: Responsible Adult Culture, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 141–182.

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 Cryobiology.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, Why Are People Starting To Believe In UFOs Again?, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-are-people-starting-to-believe-in-ufos-again/ (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, Need for Improved Coordination of Federally Assisted Student Aid Programs in Institutions of Higher Education, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.L. Eakman, Education Level and Critical Thinking Skills Among Substance Use Counselors Nationwide: A Descriptive Comparative Study, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2017.

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]

J. Markoff, Hackers Have New Entries With the Internet of Things, New York Times (2016) B1.

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	Cryobiology
Abbreviation	Cryobiology
ISSN (print)	0011-2240
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Medicine