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

Donnelly, C.A., 2000. Likely size of the French BSE epidemic. Nature 408, 787–788.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolff, E.W., British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK. ewwo@bas.ac.uk, 2003. Ocean science. Whither Antarctic sea ice? Science 302, 1164.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cusick, R.D., Kim, Y., Logan, B.E., 2012. Energy capture from thermolytic solutions in microbial reverse-electrodialysis cells. Science 335, 1474–1477.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Winter, S.E., Thiennimitr, P., Winter, M.G., Butler, B.P., Huseby, D.L., Crawford, R.W., Russell, J.M., Bevins, C.L., Adams, L.G., Tsolis, R.M., Roth, J.R., Bäumler, A.J., 2010. Gut inflammation provides a respiratory electron acceptor for Salmonella. Nature 467, 426–429.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Primak, S.L., Kontorovich, V., 2011. Wireless Multi-Antenna Channels. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Visioli, A., 2011. Control of Integral Processes with Dead Time, Advances in Industrial Control. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Arslan-Ayaydin, Ö., Thewissen, J., 2015. The Impact of Environmental Strengths and Concerns on the Accounting Performance of Firms in the Energy Sector, in: Dorsman, A., Westerman, W., Simpson, J.L. (Eds.), Energy Technology and Valuation Issues. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 83–107.

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

Fang, J., 2014. 101 Butterfly Genomes Explain Monarch Migration Prowess [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/101-butterfly-genomes-explain-monarch-migration-prowess/ (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, 2002. Transportation Infrastructure: Cost and Oversight Issues on Major Highway and Bridge Projects (No. GAO-02-702T). 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

Hakes, C.J., 2010. Off -campus work and its relationship to students’ experiences with faculty using the College Student Experiences Questionnaire (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Conte, L., 2011. Scouting Report. New York Times E7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Donnelly, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Donnelly, 2000; Wolff and British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK. ewwo@bas.ac.uk, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Wolff and British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK. ewwo@bas.ac.uk, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Winter et al., 2010)

About the journal

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