How to format your references using the New BIOTECHNOLOGY citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New BIOTECHNOLOGY. 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

[1]

Ranganathan R. Biochemistry. Signaling across the cell membrane. Science 2007;318:1253–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Brochier C, Philippe H. Phylogeny: a non-hyperthermophilic ancestor for bacteria. Nature 2002;417:244.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Thore S, Leibundgut M, Ban N. Structure of the eukaryotic thiamine pyrophosphate riboswitch with its regulatory ligand. Science 2006;312:1208–11.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhang D, Wei D, Li Q, Ge X, Guo X, Xie Z, et al. High performance catalytic distillation using CNTs-based holistic catalyst for production of high quality biodiesel. Sci Rep 2014;4:4021.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Savaux V, Louët Y. MMSE-Based Algorithm for Joint Signal Detection, Channel and Noise Variance Estimation for OFDM Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Shively JM, editor. Inclusions in Prokaryotes. vol. 1. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rizvi NB, Nagra SA. Literature Review: Cardiovascular Disorders and Lipid Profile. In: Nagra SA, editor. Minerals and Lipids Profiles in Cardiovascular Disorders in South Asia: Cu, Mg, Se, Zn and Lipid Serum Profiles for the Example of Patients in Pakistan, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014, p. 45–66.

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 New BIOTECHNOLOGY.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Big Data’s “Streetlight Effect’: Where And How We Look Affects What We See. IFLScience 2016.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Analysis of Cost Estimates for the Space Shuttle and Two Alternate Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Chirwa KU. Encumbered Existence: A Three Movement Work for Jazz Orchestra. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2017.

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

[1]

Vecsey G. Summoning Another Storm. New York Times 2011:D8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	New BIOTECHNOLOGY
Abbreviation	N. Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)	1871-6784
Scope	Biotechnology Molecular Biology Bioengineering General Medicine