How to format your references using the EMBnet.journal citation style

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

Mattick JS (2005) The functional genomics of noncoding RNA. Science 309 (5740), 1527–1528.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thomas CD and Williamson M (2012) Extinction and climate change. Nature 482 (7386), E4-5; author reply E5-6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bennett MJ, Lebrón JA, and Bjorkman PJ (2000) Crystal structure of the hereditary haemochromatosis protein HFE complexed with transferrin receptor. Nature 403 (6765), 46–53.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Revilla RI, Li X-J, Yang Y-L, and Wang C (2014) Large electric field-enhanced-hardness effect in a SiO2 film. Sci. Rep. 4, 4523.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baldwin P (2010) OSx86 Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA,.

An edited book

Zohuri B (2015) Thermodynamics In Nuclear Power Plant Systems Springer International Publishing, Cham, 1st ed. 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Yunus AP, Dou J, Avtar R, and Narayana AC (2016) Shoreline and Coastal Morphological Changes Induced by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in the Katchal Island, Andaman and Nicobar – A Study Using Archived Satellite Images. In: Santiago-FandiñoV, TanakaH, and SpiskeM (eds) Tsunamis and Earthquakes in Coastal Environments: Significance and Restoration. Coastal Research Library. Springer International Publishing, Cham, Cham,pp. 65–77

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 EMBnet.journal.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2016) Why So Many People Regain Weight After Dieting. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-so-many-people-regain-weight-after-dieting/ (accessed 30 October 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 (1993) NASA Aeronautics: Protecting Sensitive Technology U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC,.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

CampBell PK (2012) Lenses of indigenous feminism: Digging up the roots of Western patriarchy in ‘Perma Red’ and ‘Monkey Beach’.

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

Alderman L (2013) Romanian’s Tale Has Art World Fearing Worst.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Mattick, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Mattick, 2005; Thomas and Williamson, 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Thomas and Williamson, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Revilla et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	EMBnet.journal
ISSN (online)	2226-6089
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