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

Meyer, G. (2015) Playing the field. Science 348, 938

A journal article with 2 authors

Bethell, T. and Bergin, E. (2009) Formation and survival of water vapor in the terrestrial planet-forming region. Science 326, 1675–1677

A journal article with 3 authors

Hermans, T. M., Frauenrath, H., and Stellacci, F. (2013) Materials science. Droplets out of equilibrium. Science 341, 243–244

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Barken, D., Wang, C. J., Kearns, J., Cheong, R., Hoffmann, A., and Levchenko, A. (2005) Comment on “Oscillations in NF-kappaB signaling control the dynamics of gene expression.” Science 308, 52; author reply 52

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins, D. (2013) Reading Paradise Lost. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford

An edited book

Boer, F. S. de, Bonsangue, M. M., Graf, S., and Roever, W.-P. de, eds. (2007) Formal Methods for Components and Objects: 5th International Symposium, FMCO 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 7-10, 2006, Revised Lectures. vol. 4709, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Chang, S. (2013) Laziness by Need. In Programming Languages and Systems: 22nd European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2013, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2013, Rome, Italy, March 16-24, 2013. Proceedings (Felleisen, M. and Gardner, P., eds) pp. 81–100, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

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

Andrew, E. (2014) Octopus Vs. Jar. 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. (1976) Standard Budget Classifications--Proposed Functions and Subfunctions.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pelletier, J. M. (2017) Effects of Data Breaches on Sector-Wide Systematic Risk in Financial, Technology, Healthcare and Services Sectors. Capella University, Minneapolis, MN

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

Wagner, J. (2017) As Reed Departs the Mets, Prospects Are on Their Way. New York Times, July 31, 2017, p. B10

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