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

Pearce, F.: Dubious assumptions prime population bomb. Nature. 473, 125 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Robinson, C.M., Pfeiffer, J.K.: Virology. Leaping the norovirus hurdle. Science. 346, 700–701 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Tosi, L., Teatini, P., Strozzi, T.: Natural versus anthropogenic subsidence of Venice. Sci. Rep. 3, 2710 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kapitaniak, M., Lazarek, M., Nielaczny, M., Czolczynski, K., Perlikowski, P., Kapitaniak, T.: Synchronization extends the life time of the desired behavior of globally coupled systems. Sci. Rep. 4, 4391 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jones, R.B.: 20% Chance of Rain. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Rao, R.V.: Mechanical Design Optimization Using Advanced Optimization Techniques. Springer, London (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Zhiyanski, M., Gikov, A., Nedkov, S., Dimitrov, P., Naydenova, L.: Mapping Carbon Storage Using Land Cover/Land Use Data in the Area of Beklemeto, Central Balkan. In: Koulov, B. and Zhelezov, G. (eds.) Sustainable Mountain Regions: Challenges and Perspectives in Southeastern Europe. pp. 53–65. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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

Hamilton, K.: Wary Of Human-Animal Hybrids? It’s Probably Just Your Own Moral Superiority, https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/wary-of-human-animal-hybrids-its-probably-just-your-own-moral-superiority/

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: 911 Services: Most States Used 911 Funds for Intended Purposes, but FCC Could Improve Its Reporting on States’ Use of Funds. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2013)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shlapak, A.: Mental health of foster youth in Ventura County, (2013)

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

Schwartz, J.: Large Funds Are Dropping Investments in Fossil Fuels, (2016)

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