How to format your references using the Database citation style

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

Morris, M. (2006) Astronomy. Galactic prominences on the rise. Science, 314, 70–71.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lafuerza, L.F. and Toral, R. (2013) On the effect of heterogeneity in stochastic interacting-particle systems. Sci. Rep., 3, 1189.

A journal article with 3 authors

Usdin, M., Guillerm, M. and Chirac, P. (2006) Neglected tests for neglected patients. Nature, 441, 283–284.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Davis, C.C., Latvis, M., Nickrent, D.L., et al. (2007) Floral gigantism in Rafflesiaceae. Science, 315, 1812.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hansen, K.L. and Zenobia, K.E. (2011) Civil Engineer’s Handbook of Professional Practice. Civil Engineer’s Handbook of Professional Practice; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, (2011) .

An edited book

Taft, P. (2015) Violence in Nigeria: Patterns and Trends. Violence in Nigeria: Patterns and Trends; Haken, N. (ed.); Terrorism, Security, and Computation; Springer International Publishing, Cham, (2015) .

A chapter in an edited book

Eckold, G. and Schober, H. (2014) In-situ and Kinetic Studies Using Neutrons. In Ziegler, A., Graafsma, H., Zhang, X. F., et al. (eds.), In-situ Materials Characterization: Across Spatial and Temporal Scales, Springer Series in Materials Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 147–179.

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 Database.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016) Disease Evolution: Our Long History Of Fighting Viruses. Disease Evolution: Our Long History Of Fighting Viruses https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/disease-evolution-our-long-history-fighting-viruses/ (accessed Oct 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 (1997) Air Force Rationale for JDAM Production Decision. Air Force Rationale for JDAM Production Decision; NSIAD-97-176R; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (1997) .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rangwala, R. (2005) The Role of the PDZ Protein, Erbin, in Schwann Cells. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Kolomatsky, M. (2017) How Much You Need to Make. How Much You Need to Make. New York Times (2017) , RE2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Database
Abbreviation	Database (Oxford)
ISSN (online)	1758-0463
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Information Systems