How to format your references using the Current Research in Biotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Research in Biotechnology. 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

Kenyon, G., 2001. Major UK cancer research charities to consider merger. Nature 409, 4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hemmi, J.M., Zeil, J., 2003. Robust judgement of inter-object distance by an arthropod. Nature 421, 160–163.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berner, R.A., Vandenbrooks, J.M., Ward, P.D., 2007. Evolution. Oxygen and evolution. Science 316, 557–558.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Koelle, K., Cobey, S., Grenfell, B., Pascual, M., 2006. Epochal evolution shapes the phylodynamics of interpandemic influenza A (H3N2) in humans. Science 314, 1898–1903.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sexton, D., 2009. Trump University Marketing 101. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Huang, D.-S., Jo, K.-H., Lee, H.-H., Kang, H.-J., Bevilacqua, V. (Eds.), 2009. Emerging Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications: 5th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2009, Ulsan, South Korea, September 16-19, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Lolli, G., 2011. Peano and the Foundations of Arithmetic, in: Skof, F. (Ed.), Giuseppe Peano between Mathematics and Logic: Proceeding of the International Conference in Honour of Giuseppe Peano on the 150th Anniversary of His Birth and the Centennial of the Formulario Mathematico, Turin (Italy), October 2–3,2008. Springer, Milano, pp. 47–67.

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 Current Research in Biotechnology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. From Chimps To Bees And Bacteria, How Animals Hold Elections [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chimps-bees-and-bacteria-how-animals-hold-elections/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2010. Joint Strike Fighter: Significant Challenges and Decisions Ahead (No. GAO-10-478T). 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

Garfield-Kabbara, J.N., 2014. Through the Portal of Shame: A Path Toward Self-Love for Fatherless Daughters Living in Patriarchy (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Rothenberg, B., 2016. An Exclusive Club, With Elusive Perks. New York Times B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kenyon, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Hemmi and Zeil, 2003; Kenyon, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Hemmi and Zeil, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Koelle et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Research in Biotechnology
ISSN (print)	2590-2628
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