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]

Schiermeier Q. Deep-sea sub aims to get to the bottom of a muddy issue. Nature 2003;423:469.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Elena SF, Sanjuán R. Evolution. Climb every mountain? Science 2003;302:2074–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Nilius N, Wallis TM, Ho W. Development of one-dimensional band structure in artificial gold chains. Science 2002;297:1853–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lunov O, Zablotskii V, Churpita O, Chánová E, Syková E, Dejneka A, et al. Cell death induced by ozone and various non-thermal plasmas: therapeutic perspectives and limitations. Sci Rep 2014;4:7129.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hens H. Building Physics - Heat, Air and Moisture. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Cunha JC, Rana OF, editors. Grid Computing: Software Environments and Tools. London: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hirtle SC, Timpf S, Tenbrink T. The Effect of Activity on Relevance and Granularity for Navigation. In: Egenhofer M, Giudice N, Moratz R, Worboys M, editors. Spatial Information Theory: 10th International Conference, COSIT 2011, Belfast, ME, USA, September 12-16, 2011. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 73–89.

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 D. The Unknown Crocodiles. IFLScience 2017.

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. Weather Service Modernization: Risks Remain That Full Systems Potential Will Not be Achieved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Armani MD. Nucleic acid extraction and detection across two-dimensional tissue samples. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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]

Kelly M. THE TRANSITION: The New Team; Clinton Forming Tight Ethics Guides for Transition and Staff Aides. New York Times 1992:A22.

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

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