How to format your references using the Fibers citation style

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

Miller, K.D. Neuroscience. π = Visual Cortex. Science 2010, 330, 1059–1060.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tamura, K.; Schimmel, P. Chiral-Selective Aminoacylation of an RNA Minihelix. Science 2004, 305, 1253.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roberts, R.B.; Ser, J.R.; Kocher, T.D. Sexual Conflict Resolved by Invasion of a Novel Sex Determiner in Lake Malawi Cichlid Fishes. Science 2009, 326, 998–1001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tamura, A.; Ikeda, G.; Seo, J.-H.; Tsuchiya, K.; Yajima, H.; Sasaki, Y.; Akiyoshi, K.; Yui, N. Molecular Logistics Using Cytocleavable Polyrotaxanes for the Reactivation of Enzymes Delivered in Living Cells. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2252.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chowdhury, D.; Stauffer, D. Principles of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2005; ISBN 9783527603152.

An edited book

Telecommunications Planning: Innovations in Pricing, Network Design and Management; Raghavan, S., Anandalingam, G., Eds.; Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2006; Vol. 33; ISBN 9780387292229.

A chapter in an edited book

Fukuoka, H. DNA Markers in Solanaceae Breeding. In Functional Genomics and Biotechnology in Solanaceae and Cucurbitaceae Crops; Ezura, H., Ariizumi, T., Garcia-Mas, J., Rose, J., Eds.; Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2016; pp. 43–58 ISBN 9783662485330.

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 Fibers.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Scientists Have Made Light Appear to Break Newton’s Third Law Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-have-made-light-appear-break-newton’s-third-law/ (accessed on 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 Performance and Accountability Highlights Fiscal Year 2006; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pan, X. Using Structural Information in Modeling and Multiple Alignments for Phylogenetics. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, 2008.

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

O’connor, J. Biking Through Badlands. New York Times 2016, TR1.

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	Fibers
Abbreviation	Fibers (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2079-6439
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