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

Buchanan M (2002) A game of chance. Nature 419 (6909), 787.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seibel BA and Walsh PJ (2001) Carbon cycle. Potential impacts of CO2 injection on deep-sea biota. Science 294 (5541), 319–320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tuch BB, Li H, and Johnson AD (2008) Evolution of eukaryotic transcription circuits. Science 319 (5871), 1797–1799.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Osyczka A, Moser CC, Daldal F, and Dutton PL (2004) Reversible redox energy coupling in electron transfer chains. Nature 427 (6975), 607–612.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bachmutsky A (2010) System Design for Telecommunication Gateways John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK,.

An edited book

Yager RR, Kacprzyk J, and Beliakov G eds. (2011) Recent Developments in the Ordered Weighted Averaging Operators: Theory and Practice Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg,.

A chapter in an edited book

Daniels JA and Bradley MC (2011) Successfully Resolved Barricaded Captive Events. In: BradleyMC (ed) Preventing Lethal School Violence. Springer, New York, NY, New York, NY,pp. 57–70

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

Hale T (2016) Beautiful And Terrifying Time-Lapse Shows Antibiotic Resistance In Action. IFLScience

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 (1998) Department of the Interior: Year 2000 Computing Crisis Presents Risk of Disruption to Key Operations 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

D’Ambrosio JL (2013) Perspectives on the Geomorphic Evolution and Ecology of Modified Channels and Two-Stage Ditches in the Agriculturally-Dominated Midwestern United States.

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

Curran M (2015) New Yorkers for White Sauce.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buchanan, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Buchanan, 2002; Seibel and Walsh, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Seibel and Walsh, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Osyczka et al., 2004)

About the journal

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