How to format your references using the Industrial Biotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Industrial Biotechnology (IND). 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

Peto J. Cancer epidemiology in the last century and the next decade. Nature 2001;411(6835):390–395.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith EC, Lewicki MS. Efficient auditory coding. Nature 2006;439(7079):978–982.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xing M, Li X, Zhang J. Synergistic effect on the visible light activity of Ti3+ doped TiO2 nanorods/boron doped graphene composite. Sci Rep 2014;4:5493.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shin S, El-Diwany R, Schaffert S, et al. Antigen recognition determinants of gammadelta T cell receptors. Science 2005;308(5719):252–255.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ehrlich E, Fanelli D. The Financial Services Marketing Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2012.

An edited book

Hershberg E, LeoGrande WM, (eds). A New Chapter in US-Cuba Relations: Social, Political, and Economic Implications. Studies of the Americas. Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang A, Zhou L, Wang L. Summary. In: Security-Aware Device-to-Device Communications Underlaying Cellular Networks. (Zhou L, Wang L. eds). SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2016; pp. 71–73.

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 Industrial Biotechnology.

Blog post

Andrew D. Check Out This Gorilla’s Reaction To Seeing Other Gorillas On A Smartphone. IFLScience; 2015. [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Math and Science Education: Comprehensive Information About Federally Funded Materials Not Available. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gupta P. Enhanced Acquisition of Data in the Presence of Transfaulty Nodes in a Wireless Sensor Network. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA; 2017.

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

Mann J. America’s Dangerous ‘China Fantasy.’ New York Times 2016;A14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Industrial Biotechnology
ISSN (print)	1550-9087
ISSN (online)	1931-8421
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