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

Allen, K.A., 2015. Geochemistry: When carbon escaped from the sea. Nature 518, 176–177.

A journal article with 2 authors

Freeman, B.C., Yamamoto, K.R., 2002. Disassembly of transcriptional regulatory complexes by molecular chaperones. Science 296, 2232–2235.

A journal article with 3 authors

Viswanathan, S.R., Daley, G.Q., Gregory, R.I., 2008. Selective blockade of microRNA processing by Lin28. Science 320, 97–100.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jayaram, H., Taraporewala, Z., Patton, J.T., Prasad, B.V.V., 2002. Rotavirus protein involved in genome replication and packaging exhibits a HIT-like fold. Nature 417, 311–315.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Church, R.L., Murray, A.T., 2008. Business Site Selection, Location Analysis and GIS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Velásquez, J.D., Palade, V., Jain, L.C. (Eds.), 2013. Advanced Techniques in Web Intelligence-2: Web User Browsing Behaviour and Preference Analysis, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kunkel, K.E., Moss, R., Parris, A., 2016. Innovations in science and scenarios for assessment, in: Jacobs, K., Moser, S., Buizer, J. (Eds.), The US National Climate Assessment: Innovations in Science and Engagement, Springer Climate. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 55–68.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Giant 17 Million Year Old Sperm Found Preserved [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/giant-17-million-year-old-sperm-found-preserved/ (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, 1998. Federal Documents in Languages Other Than English Published and Distributed in Calendar Years 1995-1997 (No. GGD-98-99R). 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

Ryan, J.I., 2017. Analysis of the role of the Jackson Prairie in prehistoric/protohistoric settlement patterns using survey data from the Bienville National Forest (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Koblin, J., 2016. ‘I Am Cait,’ Failing to Attract Viewers, Is Ending After Two Seasons. New York Times C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Allen, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Allen, 2015; Freeman and Yamamoto, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Freeman and Yamamoto, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Jayaram et al., 2002)

About the journal

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