How to format your references using the Electronic Journal of Biotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Electronic Journal of 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

[1]

Budd GE. A palaeontological solution to the arthropod head problem. Nature 2002;417:271–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chen MS, White MC. A predictably selective aliphatic C-H oxidation reaction for complex molecule synthesis. Science 2007;318:783–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Loewe L, Textor V, Scherer S. High deleterious genomic mutation rate in stationary phase of Escherichia coli. Science 2003;302:1558–60.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Shibata N, Pennycook SJ, Gosnell TR, Painter GS, Shelton WA, Becher PF. Observation of rare-earth segregation in silicon nitride ceramics at subnanometre dimensions. Nature 2004;428:730–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Henderson GR. Six Sigma Quality Improvement with Minitab. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Pointcheval D, Nitaj A, Rachidi T, editors. Progress in Cryptology – AFRICACRYPT 2016: 8th International Conference on Cryptology in Africa, Fes, Morocco, April 13-15, 2016, Proceedings. vol. 9646. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Deveaud R, SanJuan E, Bellot P. Social Recommendation and External Resources for Book Search. In: Geva S, Kamps J, Schenkel R, editors. Focused Retrieval of Content and Structure: 10th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, December 12-14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 68–79.

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 Electronic Journal of Biotechnology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Two-Thirds Of Cancer Mutations Down To Random Bad Luck, Claims Study. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/twothirds-cancer-mutations-random-bad-luck/ (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. Coast Guard’s Marine Safety Program Staffing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Litt D. Social networking sites and adolescent alcohol use: The role of social images, social norms, and social comparison. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2010.

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]

Pilon M. Tarnish on the Torch. New York Times 2016:BR11.

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	Electronic Journal of Biotechnology
Abbreviation	Electron. J. Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)	0717-3458
Scope	Biotechnology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology