How to format your references using the Engineering in Life Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Engineering in Life Sciences. 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]

Eberl, G., Immunology: A is for immunity. Nature 2014, 508, 47–48.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Page, S.L., Hawley, R.S., Chromosome choreography: the meiotic ballet. Science 2003, 301, 785–789.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pendry, J.B., Schurig, D., Smith, D.R., Controlling electromagnetic fields. Science 2006, 312, 1780–1782.

A journal article with 5 or more authors

[1]

Honda, T., Lee, C.-Y., Yoshida-Kasikawa, M., Honjo, K., et al., Induction of associative olfactory memory by targeted activation of single olfactory neurons in Drosophila larvae. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4798.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kassapoglou, C., Design and Analysis of Composite Structures, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Blanche, P.-A. (Ed.), Photorefractive Organic Materials and Applications, Springer International Publishing, Cham 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Komera, S., Lukose, P.J.J., Sasidharan, S., Business Group Affiliation and Innovation in Medium and High-Technology Industries in India, in: Siddharthan, N.S., Narayanan, K. (Eds.), Technology: Corporate and Social Dimensions, Springer, Singapore 2016, pp. 43–56.

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 Engineering in Life Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

Davis, J., State Of The World’s Plants Report Highlights 28,000 Species With Medicinal Properties. IFLScience 2017.

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, Environmental Protection Agency: Control of Air Pollution From New Motor Vehicles--Tier 2 Motor Vehicle Emissions Standards and Gasoline Sulfur Control Requirements, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Moon, M.M., The needs of Korean-American and Korean families of children with disabilities, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2009.

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]

St. John Kelly, E., The Hatman Closeth. New York Times 1994, 1310.

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	Engineering in Life Sciences
Abbreviation	Eng. Life Sci.
ISSN (print)	1618-0240
ISSN (online)	1618-2863
Scope	Biotechnology Bioengineering Environmental Engineering