How to format your references using the Journal of the Korean Society for Applied Biological Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Korean Society for Applied Biological Chemistry. 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

Chandler D (2005) Interfaces and the driving force of hydrophobic assembly. Nature 437:640–647

A journal article with 2 authors

Topisirovic I, Sonenberg N (2010) Cell biology. Burn out or fade away? Science 327:1210–1211

A journal article with 3 authors

Renata H, Zhou Q, Baran PS (2013) Strategic redox relay enables a scalable synthesis of ouabagenin, a bioactive cardenolide. Science 339:59–63

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lewis AC, Carslaw N, Marriott PJ, et al (2000) A larger pool of ozone-forming carbon compounds in urban atmospheres. Nature 405:778–781

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

E. Sutherland P (2014) Principles of Electrical Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Villani V (ed) (2011) Differential Topology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Chen JL, Colgan TD, Walton KL, et al (2016) The TGF-β Signalling Network in Muscle Development, Adaptation and Disease. In: White J, Smythe G (eds) Growth Factors and Cytokines in Skeletal Muscle Development, Growth, Regeneration and Disease. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 97–131

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 Korean Society for Applied Biological Chemistry.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Cassini Captures Gorgeous Shots Of Two Moons Peeking Through Saturn’s Rings. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/cassini-captures-gorgeous-shots-of-two-moons-peeking-through-saturns-rings/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1984) A List of Selected GAO Publications Containing Checklists or Guidance on Computer Software Topics. 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

Paaske LK (2014) AVPV kisspeptin neurons mediate neuroprogesterone induction of the luteinizing hormone surge. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Johnson G (2015) Dark Matter’s Deep Reach. New York Times D4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chandler 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Chandler 2005; Topisirovic and Sonenberg 2010).

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

Two authors: (Topisirovic and Sonenberg 2010)
Three or more authors: (Lewis et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Korean Society for Applied Biological Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Korean Soc. Appl. Biol. Chem.
ISSN (print)	1738-2203
ISSN (online)	2234-344X
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Organic Chemistry