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]

Dobson CM. Protein chemistry. In the footsteps of alchemists. Science 2004;304:1259–62.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gao GF, Feng Y. On the ground in Sierra Leone. Science 2014;346:666.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hong J-W, Hendrix DA, Levine MS. Shadow enhancers as a source of evolutionary novelty. Science 2008;321:1314.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Orme CA, Noy A, Wierzbicki A, McBride MT, Grantham M, Teng HH, et al. Formation of chiral morphologies through selective binding of amino acids to calcite surface steps. Nature 2001;411:775–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kodama KP, Hinnov LA. Rock Magnetic Cyclostratigraphy. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Morgado A. Nanometer CMOS Sigma-Delta Modulators for Software Defined Radio. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bandieramonte M, Di Stefano A, Morana G. An ACO Inspired Strategy to Improve Jobs Scheduling in a Grid Environment. In: Bourgeois AG, Zheng SQ, editors. Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing: 8th International Conference, ICA3PP 2008, Cyprus, June 9-11, 2008 Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 30–41.

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]

Taub B. Illegal Drugs In People’s Pee Are Altering River Ecosystems. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/illegal-drugs-peoples-pee-altering-river-ecosystems/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Financing Higher Education: Examples Comparing Existing and Proposed Student Aid Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mhatre AB. Zone-Clipper. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

Poniewozik J. Big Ideas and Short-Term Stays. New York Times 2017:C6.

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