How to format your references using the Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists. 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

1. Bolker, J. Model organisms: There’s more to life than rats and flies. 491 (7422) :31–33 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fujiwara, M., and Caswell, H. Demography of the endangered North Atlantic right whale. 414 (6863) :537–541 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Blackburn, E. H., Epel, E. S., and Lin, J. Human telomere biology: A contributory and interactive factor in aging, disease risks, and protection. 350 (6265) :1193–1198 2015.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Studt, F., Abild-Pedersen, F., Bligaard, T., Sørensen, R. Z., Christensen, C. H., and Nørskov, J. K. Identification of non-precious metal alloy catalysts for selective hydrogenation of acetylene. 320 (5881) :1320–1322 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cliteur, P. The Secular Outlook. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. 2010.

An edited book

1. Ferreras, I., and Pasquali, A., eds. Environment and the Formation of Galaxies: 30 years later: Proceedings of Symposium 2 of JENAM 2010. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Van, M., Kang, H.-J., and Ro, Y.-S. A Robust Fault Detection and Isolation Scheme for Robot Manipulators Based on Neural Networks. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advanced Intelligent Computing: 7th International Conference, ICIC 2011, Zhengzhou, China, August 11-14, 2011. Revised Selected Papers. D.-S. Huang, , Y. Gan, , V. Bevilacqua, , and J.C. Figueroa, eds. . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp.25–32. 2012.

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 the American Society of Brewing Chemists.

Blog post

1. Hale, T. Svalbard “Doomsday” Seed Vault To Get Revamp After Permafrost Melt Leak. 2017.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Review of Geomagnetic Activities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lintott, R. W. The manipulation of time perception in John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic.” 2010.

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

1. Samuels, D. The Storyteller and the President. :MM44 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2,4).
This sentence cites four references (4,5,6,8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists
Abbreviation	J. Am. Soc. Brew. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0361-0470
Scope	Food Science Biotechnology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology