How to format your references using the The FASEB Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The FASEB Journal (FASEB). 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

Smaglik, P. (2005) Guiding hands. Nature 434, 801

A journal article with 2 authors

Temeles, E. J. and Kress, W. J. (2003) Adaptation in a plant-hummingbird association. Science 300, 630–633

A journal article with 3 authors

Fricke, H. C., Hencecroth, J., and Hoerner, M. E. (2011) Lowland-upland migration of sauropod dinosaurs during the Late Jurassic epoch. Nature 480, 513–515

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Itkis, M. E., Borondics, F., Yu, A., and Haddon, R. C. (2006) Bolometric infrared photoresponse of suspended single-walled carbon nanotube films. Science 312, 413–416

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhao, G. (2017) Reuse and Recycling of Lithium-Ion Power Batteries. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

León, R., Muñoz-Torres, M. J., and Moneva, J. M., eds. (2016) Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics and Management: International Conference, MS 2016, Teruel, Spain, July 4-5, 2016, Proceedings. vol. 254, Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ide, N., Pustejovsky, J., Cieri, C., Nyberg, E., DiPersio, D., Shi, C., Suderman, K., Verhagen, M., Wang, D., and Wright, J. (2016) The Language Application Grid. In Worldwide Language Service Infrastructure: Second International Workshop, WLSI 2015, Kyoto, Japan, January 22-23, 2015. Revised Selected Papers (Murakami, Y. and Lin, D., eds) pp. 51–70, Springer International Publishing, Cham

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 The FASEB Journal.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016) Watch A River Full Of Methane Get Set On Fire. IFLScience

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. (1973) Payments for Independent Research and Development and Bid and Proposal Costs.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reyes, J. (2009) Connections: A grant proposal for mothers struggling with substance abuse in the child welfare system. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

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

Crow, K. (2001) Slippers, Pudding and a Martini Glass For Auden, in This Age of Anxiety. New York Times, October 21, 2001, p. 148

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	The FASEB Journal
Abbreviation	FASEB J.
ISSN (print)	0892-6638
ISSN (online)	1530-6860
Scope	Biochemistry Biotechnology Genetics Molecular Biology