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

Grosjean, M., 2001. Mid-Holocene climate in the south-central Andes: humid or dry? Science 292, 2391.

A journal article with 2 authors

Woodroffe, R., Redpath, S.M., 2015. CONSERVATION. When the hunter becomes the hunted. Science 348, 1312–1314.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gauld, S.B., Dal Porto, J.M., Cambier, J.C., 2002. B cell antigen receptor signaling: roles in cell development and disease. Science 296, 1641–1642.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Saeij, J.P.J., Boyle, J.P., Coller, S., Taylor, S., Sibley, L.D., Brooke-Powell, E.T., Ajioka, J.W., Boothroyd, J.C., 2006. Polymorphic secreted kinases are key virulence factors in toxoplasmosis. Science 314, 1780–1783.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Hara, B.T., Malisow, B., 2017. CCSP® (ISC) 2® Certified Cloud Security Professional Official Study Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hameurlain, A., Morvan, F., Tjoa, A.M. (Eds.), 2010. Data Management in Grid and Peer-to-Peer Systems: Third International Conference, Globe 2010, Bilbao, Spain, September 1-2, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Del Moral, P., Rémillard, B., Rubenthaler, S., 2012. Monte Carlo Approximations of American Options that Preserve Monotonicity and Convexity, in: Carmona, R.A., Del Moral, P., Hu, P., Oudjane, N. (Eds.), Numerical Methods in Finance: Bordeaux, June 2010, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 115–143.

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., 2015. Jurassic World: If You Make A Monster It Will Always Bite Back [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/jurassic-world-if-you-make-monster-it-will-always-bite-back/ (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, 2013. Information Technology: OMB and Agencies Need to Focus Continued Attention on Eliminating Duplicative Investments (No. GAO-13-685T). 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

DeVito, M.A., 2015. Facebook Family Values: A News Feed Hierarchy Of Needs (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Saslow, L., 2007. Superintendent Takes On Ailing Roosevelt. New York Times 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grosjean, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Grosjean, 2001; Woodroffe and Redpath, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Woodroffe and Redpath, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Saeij et al., 2006)

About the journal

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