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]

Magistretti PJ. Neuroscience. Low-cost travel in neurons. Science 2009;325:1349–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sommer MA, Wurtz RH. A pathway in primate brain for internal monitoring of movements. Science 2002;296:1480–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bruskotter JT, Enzler SA, Treves A. Science and law. Rescuing wolves from politics: wildlife as a public trust resource. Science 2011;333:1828–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ford MG, Pearse BM, Higgins MK, Vallis Y, Owen DJ, Gibson A, et al. Simultaneous binding of PtdIns(4,5)P2 and clathrin by AP180 in the nucleation of clathrin lattices on membranes. Science 2001;291:1051–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Higgs PG, Attwood TK. Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution. Malden, MA USA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Velmezova E, Kull K, Cowley SJ, editors. Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics. vol. 13. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Muñoz R, Gonzales C, Price K, Rosario A, Huggel C, Frey H, et al. Managing Glacier Related Risks Disaster in the Chucchún Catchment, Cordillera Blanca, Peru. In: Salzmann N, Huggel C, Nussbaumer SU, Ziervogel G, editors. Climate Change Adaptation Strategies – An Upstream-downstream Perspective, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 59–78.

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]

Andrew E. New Anti-Prion Compound Provides New Hope For Treating Brain-Wasting Disease. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-anti-prions-compound-provide-new-hope-treating-brain-wasting-disease/ (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. Air Traffic Control: FAA Plans to Replace Its Host Computer System Because Future Availability Cannot Be Assured. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Crooks RH. Analysis Of The XY Spin 1/2 Model In Staggered Field And Networks Of D-Wave Josephson Junctions. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 2012.

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]

Feeney K. Their Daily Flatbread. New York Times 2009:NJ12.

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

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