How to format your references using the Metabolic Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Metabolic Engineering. 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	Download the output style file
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

White, T.W., 2002. Unique and redundant connexin contributions to lens development. Science 295, 319–320.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barthelme, D., Sauer, R.T., 2012. Identification of the Cdc48•20S proteasome as an ancient AAA+ proteolytic machine. Science 337, 843–846.

A journal article with 3 authors

Basu, P., Qiu, J., Powell, K., 2008. Making a difference. Nature 455, 1002–1003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wu, Y., Dong, Q., Liu, L., Han, P., Wei, Q., 2014. The impact of tumor location and multifocality on prognosis for patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma: a meta-analysis. Sci. Rep. 4, 6361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nahar, L., Sarker, S.D., 2012. Steroid Dimers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Gherbawy, Y., Voigt, K. (Eds.), 2010. Molecular Identification of Fungi. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Trujillo, M., Romero, R., Berjano, E., 2013. Modelos Teóricos basados en Métodos Numéricos de un Aplicador Cool-tip para Ablación RF de Tumores: Relación entre la Temperatura y la Impedancia, in: Folgueras Méndez, J., Aznielle Rodríguez, T.Y., Calderón Marín, C.F., Llanusa Ruiz, S.B., Castro Medina, J., Vega Vázquez, H., Carballo Barreda, M., Rodríguez Rojas, R. (Eds.), V Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering CLAIB 2011 May 16-21, 2011, Habana, Cuba: Sustainable Technologies for the Health of All, IFMBE Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 17–20.

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 Metabolic Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. NASA Telescope Captures Spectacular Snap Of The Sun’s Sizzling X-rays [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-telescope-captures-spectacular-snap-sun-s-sizzling-x-rays/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1980. Comments on Proposed F.P.M.R. Amendment (No. B-198809,B-199575). 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

Perez, R.W., 2017. Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block? The Impact of Prior Military Service on Hiring Managers’ Perceptions of Warmth, Competence, and Hirability (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Cowley, S., Silver-Greenberg, J., 2017. Suits Say Lender Duped Students to Fuel Growth. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (White, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Barthelme and Sauer, 2012; White, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Barthelme and Sauer, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Metabolic Engineering
Abbreviation	Metab. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1096-7176
Scope	Biotechnology Bioengineering Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology