How to format your references using the Cybium citation style

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

ZERHOUNI, E., 2003. - Embryonic stem cells. Stem cell programs. Science, 300: 911–912.

A journal article with 2 authors

RIZKI, A. & LUNDBLAD, V., 2001. - Defects in mismatch repair promote telomerase-independent proliferation. Nature, 411: 713–716.

A journal article with 3 authors

HE, Y., XUE, G.-H., & FU, J.-Z., 2014. - Fabrication of low cost soft tissue prostheses with the desktop 3D printer. Sci. Rep., 4: 6973.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

OLSEN, S.M., HANSEN, B., QUADFASEL, D., & ØSTERHUS, S., 2008. - Observed and modelled stability of overflow across the Greenland-Scotland ridge. Nature, 455: 519–522.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

TAYLOR, R., 2006. - Handbook of Retinal Screening in Diabetes. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

HANNIBAL, J., 2006. - Neuronal Input Pathways to the Brain’s Biological Clock and their Functional Significance. X, 76 p. 22 illus., 13 illus. in color p., Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

REGINE, G., ATZORI, M., & FABBRI, R., 2012. - Mdc in ecografia pediatrica e nello studio dei reflussi vescico-uretrali: «cistosonografia». In: Ecocontrastografia Dell’apparato Urinario (Atzori, M., & Fabbri, R., eds.). pp. 45–54. Milano: Springer.

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 Cybium.

Blog post

FANG, J., 2015. - Chimps Adapt to Life in Degraded, Human-Dominated Areas [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chimps-adapt-life-degraded-human-dominated-areas/ (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, 1988. - Engineering Research Centers: NSF Program Management and Industry Sponsorship ( No. RCED-88-177). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

COUCH, H.C., 2017. - Providers’ Acceptance of Smartphone Applications as a Supportive Strategy for Adolescent Asthma (Doctoral dissertation)Doctoral dissertationTucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

NOVICK, S.M., 2014. - Shoppers Are Getting a Culinary Lift. New York Times, LI9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zerhouni, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Rizki and Lundblad, 2001; Zerhouni, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Rizki and Lundblad, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Olsen et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cybium
ISSN (print)	0399-0974
ISSN (online)	2101-0315
Scope