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]

Fry DP. Life without war. Science 2012;336:879–84.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dillin A, Kelly JW. Medicine. The yin-yang of sirtuins. Science 2007;317:461–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hoch JC, Maciejewski MW, Gryk MR. Comment on “magnetic resonance spectroscopy identifies neural progenitor cells in the live human brain.” Science 2008;321:640.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Murray CD, Beurle K, Cooper NJ, Evans MW, Williams GA, Charnoz S. The determination of the structure of Saturn’s F ring by nearby moonlets. Nature 2008;453:739–44.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Pai MD FACC FRCP Edin RG, Varadarajan MD FACC P. Echocardiography Board Review. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Doursat R, Sayama H, Michel O, editors. Morphogenetic Engineering: Toward Programmable Complex Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Oliveira JN. Extended Static Checking by Calculation Using the Pointfree Transform. In: Bove A, Barbosa LS, Pardo A, Pinto JS, editors. Language Engineering and Rigorous Software Development: International LerNet ALFA Summer School 2008, Piriapolis, Uruguay, February 24 - March 1, 2008, Revised Tutorial Lectures, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 195–251.

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. The US Army Is Developing “Dragon Silk” Body Armor Using Genetically Engineered Silkworms. IFLScience 2016.

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. Recommendation for Improving Testing of EF-111A Tactical Jamming System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Cheng L. SiC Thin-Films on Insulating substrates for Robust MEMS Applications. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati, 2003.

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]

Shpigel B. A Giants Rookie Casts a Thoughtful Eye on the World. New York Times 2016:SP3.

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