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

Carlson, D. (2011) A lesson in sharing. Nature 469, 293

A journal article with 2 authors

Morris, T. and Podsiadlowski, P. (2007) The triple-ring nebula around SN 1987A: fingerprint of a binary merger. Science 315, 1103–1106

A journal article with 3 authors

Matsumoto, M., Saito, S., and Ohmine, I. (2002) Molecular dynamics simulation of the ice nucleation and growth process leading to water freezing. Nature 416, 409–413

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, X., Shao, Y., Tang, Y., and Yao, K.-F. (2014) Highly uniform and reproducible surface enhanced Raman scattering on air-stable metallic glassy nanowire array. Sci. Rep. 4, 5835

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krasner, D. (2011) A History of Modern Drama. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Kovács, G. and Hoskin, P., eds. (2013) Interstitial Prostate Brachytherapy: LDR-PDR-HDR. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Reimair, F., Teufl, P., and Zefferer, T. (2016) CrySIL: Bringing Crypto to the Modern User. In Web Information Systems and Technologies: 11th International Conference, WEBIST 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, May 20–22, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Monfort, V., Krempels, K.-H., Majchrzak, T. A., and Turk, Ž., eds) pp. 70–90, 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

Hamilton, K. (2016) Most Antidepressant Medications Don’t Work For Children And Teens, Claims Study. 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. (2014) High-Containment Laboratories: Recent Incidents of Biosafety Lapses.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Edson, C. (2017) A Mixed-Methods Investigation on Contributing Factors to the Political Efficacy of Eighth Grade Students in a Suburban School District in Missouri. Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO

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

Lichtblau, E. (2015) Maryland Man Accused of Tapping Money From ISIS Operatives for a U.S. Attack. New York Times, December 15, 2015, p. A26

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