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

Clyne R (2004) Industry and interns. The intern experience. Nature 431 (7008), 612.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu H and Owen MR (2013) Damped propagation of cell polarization explains distinct PCP phenotypes of epithelial patterning. Sci. Rep. 3, 2528.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lestas I, Vinnicombe G, and Paulsson J (2010) Fundamental limits on the suppression of molecular fluctuations. Nature 467 (7312), 174–178.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Coulson T, Catchpole EA, Albon SD, Morgan BJ, Pemberton JM, et al. (2001) Age, sex, density, winter weather, and population crashes in Soay sheep. Science 292 (5521), 1528–1531.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Glisic S (2005) Advanced Wireless Communications John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK,.

An edited book

Lyte M ed. (2016) Microbial Endocrinology: Interkingdom Signaling in Infectious Disease and Health Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2nd ed. 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Roca A, Oliveira CS, Ansal A, and Figueras S (2006) Local Site Effects and Microzonation. In: OliveiraCarlos Sousa, RocaAntoni, and GoulaX (eds) Assessing and Managing Earthquake Risk: Geo-scientific and Engineering Knowledge for Earthquake Risk Mitigation: developments, tools, techniques. Geotechnical, Geological And Earthquake Engineering. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, Dordrecht,pp. 67–89

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 (2017) Nearly 100 Dolphins Mysteriously Stranded Off Coast Of Florida. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/nearly-100-dolphins-mysteriously-stranded-off-coast-of-florida/ (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 (1992) Geographic Information System: Forest Service Has Resolved GAO Concerns About Its Proposed Nationwide System 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

Griffith A (2017) The Curious Case of Implementation: Enactment of the California Community College Student Equity Initiative.

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

Billard M (2010) Still Wild For Animal Prints.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clyne, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Clyne, 2004; Zhu and Owen, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Zhu and Owen, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Coulson et al., 2001)

About the journal

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