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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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. Bayer, M. Botany. Patterning cues from the altruistic sibling. 344 (6180) :158–159 2014.
A journal article with 2 authors
1. Lumaret, R., and Ouazzani, N. Plant genetics. Ancient wild olives in Mediterranean forests. 413 (6857) :700 2001.
A journal article with 3 authors
1. Rao, C. V., Wolf, D. M., and Arkin, A. P. Control, exploitation and tolerance of intracellular noise. 420 (6912) :231–237 2002.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
1. Switzer, J. A., Kothari, H. M., Poizot, P., Nakanishi, S., and Bohannan, E. W. Enantiospecific electrodeposition of a chiral catalyst. 425 (6957) :490–493 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
1. Casandjian, C., Challamel, N., Lanos, C., and Hellesland, J. Reinforced Concrete Beams, Columns and Frames. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA. 2013.
An edited book
1. Ecker, W., Müller, W., and Dömer, R., eds. Hardware-dependent Software: Principles and Practice. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht. 2009.
A chapter in an edited book
1. Rehman, H. U., and Gwaltney, S. R. Structure and Energetics of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (T8,T10,T12-POSS) Cages with Atomic and Ionic Lithium Species. In: Practical Aspects of Computational Chemistry III. J. Leszczynski, and M.K. Shukla, eds. . Springer US, Boston, MA, pp.151–165. 2014.

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. Andrews, R. Cat Parasite Linked To Development Of Mental Illness In Owners. 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. Department of the Interior: Year 2000 Computing Crisis Presents Risk of Disruption to Key Operations. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
1. Hernandez, L. A culturally sensitive mentorship program for foster youth: A grant proposal. 2009.

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. Barron, J. An Ink-Stained Reunion After Years of Digital Upheaval. :A24 2017.

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 (2,4,6,8).

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists
AbbreviationJ. Am. Soc. Brew. Chem.
ISSN (print)0361-0470
ScopeFood Science
Biotechnology
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

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