How to format your references using the Journal of Biotechnology: X citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Biotechnology: X. 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

Guzmán, M.G., 2005. Global voices of science. Deciphering dengue: the Cuban experience. Science 309, 1495–1497.

A journal article with 2 authors

Romano, M., Cifelli, R.L., 2015. Geology. 100 years of continental drift. Science 350, 915–916.

A journal article with 3 authors

Siveter, D.J., Williams, M., Waloszek, D., 2001. A phosphatocopid crustacean with appendages from the Lower Cambrian. Science 293, 479–481.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Miller, P.J., Biassoni, N., Samuels, A., Tyack, P.L., 2000. Whale songs lengthen in response to sonar. Nature 405, 903.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brunet, R., 2013. Sustainable Geography. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Nowicka, M., Šerbedžija, V. (Eds.), 2016. Migration and Social Remittances in a Global Europe, Europe in a Global Context. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Allevi, E., Gnudi, A., Konnov, I.V., 2006. Partitionable Variational Inequalities with Multi-valued Mappings, in: Luc, D.T., Rubinov, A.M. (Eds.), Generalized Convexity and Related Topics, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 91–100.

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 Journal of Biotechnology: X.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. Mystery Disease Driving Turtles To Extinction [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1992. Army Accounting Adjustments--Tank-Automotive Command (No. AFMD-92-102ML). 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

Pena, A.M., 2012. Perceptions of Spanish/English bilingual school psychologists regarding competency in assessment and future training needs (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Feeney, K., 2008. A Cornucopia Of Produce. New York Times NJ14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guzmán, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Guzmán, 2005; Romano and Cifelli, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Romano and Cifelli, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Miller et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Biotechnology: X
ISSN (print)	2590-1559
Scope