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

Mawet D (2015) PLANETARY SCIENCE. Eyeing up a Jupiter-like exoplanet. Science 350:39–40

A journal article with 2 authors

Rowley JJL, Alford RA (2013) Hot bodies protect amphibians against chytrid infection in nature. Sci Rep 3:1515

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen J, Weidner DJ, Vaughan MT (2002) The strength of Mg(0.9)Fe(0.1)SiO3 perovskite at high pressure and temperature. Nature 419:824–826

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hughes JF, Skaletsky H, Pyntikova T, et al (2010) Chimpanzee and human Y chromosomes are remarkably divergent in structure and gene content. Nature 463:536–539

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alberts B, Johnson A, Lewis J, et al (2017) Molekularbiologie der Zelle. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Bernardi S (2013) Model-Driven Dependability Assessment of Software Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Karande S (2012) Quality of Life in Children Diagnosed with Specific Learning Disability or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. In: Hollar D (ed) Handbook of Children with Special Health Care Needs. Springer, New York, NY, pp 73–85

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

Luntz S (2016) Thousands Mourn Death Of Wombat Who Lived For Cuddles. 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 (1999) Federal Trade Commission: Information on Proposed Regional Restructuring Effort. 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

Crump S (2015) The efficacy of an academic behavior assessment tool for the functional behavior assessment process. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Feeney K (2008) Saturday Bustle. New York Times NJ16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mawet 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Rowley and Alford 2013; Mawet 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rowley and Alford 2013)
Three or more authors: (Hughes et al. 2010)

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

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