How to format your references using the HAYATI Journal of Biosciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for HAYATI Journal of Biosciences. 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

Patten, Lord, 2006. Europe pays the price for spending less. Nature 441, 691–693.

A journal article with 2 authors

Matsuda, N., Tanaka, K., 2015. Cell biology: Tagged tags engage disposal. Nature 524, 294–295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Taneike, M., Abe, F., Sawada, K., 2003. Creep-strengthening of steel at high temperatures using nano-sized carbonitride dispersions. Nature 424, 294–296.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Katsuki, H., Chiba, H., Girard, B., Meier, C., Ohmori, K., 2006. Visualizing picometric quantum ripples of ultrafast wave-packet interference. Science 311, 1589–1592.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adams, D.J., Dyson, P.J., Tavener, S.J., 2005. Chemistry in Alternative Reaction Media. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Caccavale, F., 2011. Control and Monitoring of Chemical Batch Reactors, Advances in Industrial Control. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Camillieri, G., Golano, P., Zaffagnini, S., 2014. 3D Anatomy Versus Arthroscopy Versus Navigation, in: Zaffagnini, S., Becker, R., Kerkhoffs, G.M.M.J., Espregueira Mendes, J., Dijk, C.N. van (Eds.), ESSKA Instructional Course Lecture Book: Amsterdam 2014. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 49–72.

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 HAYATI Journal of Biosciences.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. Should Your Car Be Programmed To Kill You? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/the-fatal-moral-dilemma-posed-by-driverless-cars/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2007. Transportation Security Administration’s Processes for Designating and Releasing Sensitive Security Information (No. GAO-08-232R). 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

Arntson, J.D., 2015. Heidegger and disclosive rhetoric: Two divergent paths in immanence and transcendence (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2012. A Rivalry to Add to the City’s Rich History. New York Times D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Patten, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Matsuda and Tanaka, 2015; Patten, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Matsuda and Tanaka, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Katsuki et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	HAYATI Journal of Biosciences
ISSN (print)	1978-3019
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