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]

Morduch J. Economics. Why finance matters. Science 2011;332:1271–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Demmig-Adams B, Adams WW 3rd. Antioxidants in photosynthesis and human nutrition. Science 2002;298:2149–53.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Semmann D, Krambeck H-J, Milinski M. Volunteering leads to rock-paper-scissors dynamics in a public goods game. Nature 2003;425:390–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Mangan PR, Harrington LE, O’Quinn DB, Helms WS, Bullard DC, Elson CO, et al. Transforming growth factor-beta induces development of the T(H)17 lineage. Nature 2006;441:231–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Stewart JM. Managing for World Class Safety. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2001.

An edited book

[1]

Bengtsson L, Herschy RW, Fairbridge RW, editors. Encyclopedia of Lakes and Reservoirs. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Reiter H, Steiner C. Fast Forward to Capitalism? Accelerated Youth in Post-Socialism. In: Schwartz M, Winkel H, editors. Eastern European Youth Cultures in a Global Context, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016, p. 64–80.

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]

Hamilton K. This Guy Fixed His Teeth By 3D Printing His Own Plastic Braces For $60. IFLScience 2017.

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. Problems in the Federal Funding of School Bus Driver Training Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sarachana T. Investigation of post-transcriptional gene regulatory networks associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) by miRNA expression profiling of lymphoblastoid cell lines. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2009.

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]

Soble J, de la MERCED MJ. Takata, Preparing for a Sale, Is Said to Near Bankruptcy. New York Times 2017:B2.

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