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. Mann, D. Geomorphology. On patterned ground. 299 (5605) :354–355 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Junttila, M. R., and de Sauvage, F. J. Influence of tumour micro-environment heterogeneity on therapeutic response. 501 (7467) :346–354 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Villegas, C. E. P., Mendonça, P. B., and Rocha, A. R. Optical spectrum of bottom-up graphene nanoribbons: towards efficient atom-thick excitonic solar cells. 4 :6579 2014.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Saneyoshi, T., Kume, S., Amasaki, Y., and Mikoshiba, K. The Wnt/calcium pathway activates NF-AT and promotes ventral cell fate in Xenopus embryos. 417 (6886) :295–299 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kölle, W. Wasseranalysen - richtig beurteilt. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany. 2009.

An edited book

1. Lecomte, A., and Tronçon, S., eds. Ludics, Dialogue and Interaction: PRELUDE Project - 2006-2009. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bhaduri, P. P., Hegde, P., Satz, H., and Tribedy, P. An Introduction to the Spectral Analysis of the QGP. In: Lecture Notes in Physics, The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Introductory Lectures. S. Sarkar, , H. Satz, , and B. Sinha, eds. . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp.179–197. 2010.

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. Luntz, S. Other Solar Systems Are Looking More Like Ours. 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. Technology Innovation: Improving the Climate for Government-Industry Cooperation. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tomko, P. R. Understanding the factors affecting the influence of children on their parents’ total purchases. 2012.

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. Crow, K. They Say the Town Cars Are Three Wide on Broadway. :147 2002.

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 (3,4).
This sentence cites four references (3,4,7,8).

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