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

Brumfiel G (2002) China ponders joining fusion project. Nature 419:545

A journal article with 2 authors

Singh I, Rose N (2009) Biomarkers in psychiatry. Nature 460:202–207

A journal article with 3 authors

Manoharan VN, Elsesser MT, Pine DJ (2003) Dense packing and symmetry in small clusters of microspheres. Science 301:483–487

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nerin C, Ubeda JL, Alfaro P, et al (2014) Compounds from multilayer plastic bags cause reproductive failures in artificial insemination. Sci Rep 4:4913

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Werner M (2015) Global Displacements. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Landau ID (2011) Adaptive Control: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications, Second Edition. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Roli A, Manfroni M, Pinciroli C, Birattari M (2011) On the Design of Boolean Network Robots. In: Chio CD, Cagnoni S, Cotta C, et al. (eds) Applications of Evolutionary Computation: EvoApplications 2011: EvoCOMPLEX, EvoGAMES, EvoIASP, EvoINTELLIGENCE, EvoNUM, and EvoSTOC, Torino, Italy, April 27-29, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–52

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

Fang J (2014) Daddy Longlegs Make Glue to Trap Springy Prey. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/daddy-longlegs-make-glue-trap-jumpy-prey/. 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 (1976) Managers Need To Provide Better Protection for Federal Automatic Data Processing Facilities. 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

Copeland AD (2013) A qualitative study of clinical oncology nurses’ perceptions of work-life balance. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Stellin S (2013) The Border Is a Back Door for U.S. Device Searches. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brumfiel 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Brumfiel 2002; Singh and Rose 2009).

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

Two authors: (Singh and Rose 2009)
Three or more authors: (Nerin et al. 2014)

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