How to format your references using the Glycoconjugate Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Glycoconjugate 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	Download the output style file
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

Singer, M.: Education. The evolution of postdocs. Science. 306, 232 (2004)

A journal article with 2 authors

Bloom, K., Joglekar, A.: Towards building a chromosome segregation machine. Nature. 463, 446–456 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Pluth, M.D., Bergman, R.G., Raymond, K.N.: Acid catalysis in basic solution: a supramolecular host promotes orthoformate hydrolysis. Science. 316, 85–88 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yan, R., Xu, D., Yang, J., Walker, S., Zhang, Y.: A comparative assessment and analysis of 20 representative sequence alignment methods for protein structure prediction. Sci. Rep. 3, 2619 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beckers, B., Beckers, P.: Reconciliation of Geometry and Perception in Radiation Physics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2014)

An edited book

Yamamoto, S. ed: Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Interaction for Health, Safety, Mobility and Complex Environments: 15th International Conference, HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Friptuleac, G., Bernic, V.: Argumentation of Hygienic Indicators of Water Quality. In: Duca, G. (ed.) Management of Water Quality in Moldova. pp. 71–77. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

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 Glycoconjugate Journal.

Blog post

Davis, J.: Dairy Farm Produces Enough Energy From Poop To Power 1,000 Homes

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: Greater Coordination and a More Effective Policy Needed for International Telecommunications Facilities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1978)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Milillo, M.S.: Analysis of emotional intelligence among management leaders and non-management leaders in software development, (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

St. John Kelly, E.: Patrons Root for the Return of the “Cheers” of Clinton Street, (1998)

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	Glycoconjugate Journal
Abbreviation	Glycoconj. J.
ISSN (print)	0282-0080
ISSN (online)	1573-4986
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Molecular Biology