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. Cassman, M. Computational biology. Counting on the neuron. 300 (5620) :756–757 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hood, L., and Galas, D. The digital code of DNA. 421 (6921) :444–448 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Xiao, S., Zhou, C., and Yuan, X. Palaeontology: undressing and redressing Ediacaran embryos. 446 (7136) :E9-10; discussion E10-1 2007.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Farrell, S. A., Webb, N. A., Barret, D., Godet, O., and Rodrigues, J. M. An intermediate-mass black hole of over 500 solar masses in the galaxy ESO 243-49. 460 (7251) :73–75 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Esch, G. W. Ecological Parasitology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. 2015.

An edited book

1. Curbera, G. P., Mockenhaupt, G., and Ricker, W. J., eds. Vector Measures, Integration and Related Topics. Birkhäuser, Basel. 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Eades, A., Deal, A., Bhattacharyya, A., and Hooghan, T. Energy Filtering in EBSD. In: Electron Backscatter Diffraction in Materials Science. A.J. Schwartz, , M. Kumar, , B.L. Adams, , and D.P. Field, eds. . Springer US, Boston, MA, pp.53–63. 2009.

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. Andrew, E. Researchers Uncover Potential Novel Treatment For Drug-Resistant TB. 2015.

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. Mass Transit Grants: Risk of Misspent and Ineffectively Used Funds in FTA’s Chicago Region. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Robinson, L. M. Using Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Spectroscopy to Examine Exciton Dynamics in II-VI Semiconductor Nanostructures. 2001.

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. Vecsey, G. Informal Mets Stroll Toward The Season. :B14 2010.

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 (2,5,7,8).

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