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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Russell P (2003) Photonic crystal fibers. Science 299 (5605), 358–362.

A journal article with 2 authors

Giazotto F and Martínez-Pérez MJ (2012) The Josephson heat interferometer. Nature 492 (7429), 401–405.

A journal article with 3 authors

Krishnamurthy H, Piscitelli CL, and Gouaux E (2009) Unlocking the molecular secrets of sodium-coupled transporters. Nature 459 (7245), 347–355.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Nakanotani H, Masui K, Nishide J, Shibata T, and Adachi C (2013) Promising operational stability of high-efficiency organic light-emitting diodes based on thermally activated delayed fluorescence. Sci. Rep. 3, 2127.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Edelstein LN and Waehler CA (2011) What Do I Say? John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ,.

An edited book

Su Y (2011) Principles of Compilers: A New Approach to Compilers Including the Algebraic Method Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg,.

A chapter in an edited book

Pye K and Tsoar H (2009) The Formation of Sand Seas and Dune Fields. In: TsoarH (ed) Aeolian Sand and Sand Dunes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg,pp. 141–173

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

Luntz S (2014) Ancient Exoplanet Could Support Life. 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 (1973) Use of Computers at Naval Laboratories 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

Glennie NT (2010) Examining trust factor relationships in the online business-to-consumer environment.

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

Barron J (2017) In a Move Away From Tradition, Cremations Increase.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Russell, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Russell, 2003; Giazotto and Martínez-Pérez, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Giazotto and Martínez-Pérez, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Nakanotani et al., 2013)

About the journal

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