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

Gavaghan H (2000) European industry turns to the academics to secure its future. Nature 406:809–811

A journal article with 2 authors

Gros J, Tabin CJ (2014) Vertebrate limb bud formation is initiated by localized epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. Science 343:1253–1256

A journal article with 3 authors

Ye K, Malinina L, Patel DJ (2003) Recognition of small interfering RNA by a viral suppressor of RNA silencing. Nature 426:874–878

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tang W, Zeve D, Suh JM, et al (2008) White fat progenitor cells reside in the adipose vasculature. Science 322:583–586

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lenk R, Lenk C (2011) Practical Lighting Design With LEDs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Petrosino A (ed) (2013) Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2013: 17th International Conference, Naples, Italy, September 9-13, 2013. Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Molchan G (2010) Space—Time Earthquake Prediction: The Error Diagrams. In: Savage MK, Rhoades DA, Smith EGC, et al. (eds) Seismogenesis and Earthquake Forecasting: The Frank Evison Volume II. Springer, Basel, pp 53–63

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

Hamilton K (2017) Marijuana Extract Reduces Seizures In Kids With Severe Epilepsy. In: IFLScience. 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 (1993) Developing and Using Questionnaires. 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

Clark S (2014) Psychological resilience, daily stressors, and implications for physical activity levels in mothers with young children. 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

Almosawa S, Hubbard B (2017) Yemen Airstrike Kills at Least 16. New York Times A8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gavaghan 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gavaghan 2000; Gros and Tabin 2014).

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

Two authors: (Gros and Tabin 2014)
Three or more authors: (Tang et al. 2008)

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