How to format your references using the Carbohydrate Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Carbohydrate Research. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

J.V. Narlikar, Venture funding for new ideas, Nature 404 (2000) 707.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Heinze, U. Homberg, Maplike representation of celestial E-vector orientations in the brain of an insect, Science 315 (2007) 995–997.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Purohit, A. Mitra, A. Auerbach, A stepwise mechanism for acetylcholine receptor channel gating, Nature 446 (2007) 930–933.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.J. Bornhop, J.C. Latham, A. Kussrow, D.A. Markov, R.D. Jones, H.S. Sørensen, Free-solution, label-free molecular interactions studied by back-scattering interferometry, Science 317 (2007) 1732–1736.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Shamah, A Currency Options Primer, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

A. van Aartsengel, A Guide to Continuous Improvement Transformation: Concepts, Processes, Implementation, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Gunn, Online Assessment and Learner Motivation in the Twenty-First Century, in: C. Koh (Ed.), Motivation, Leadership and Curriculum Design: Engaging the Net Generation and 21st Century Learners, Springer, Singapore, 2015: pp. 53–62.

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 Carbohydrate Research.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Why Killing Lions Like Cecil May Actually Be Good For Conservation, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-killing-lions-cecil-may-actually-be-good-conservation/ (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, Aviation and the Environment: Initial Voluntary Airport Low Emissions Program Projects Reduce Emissions, and FAA Plans to Assess the Program’s Overall Performance as Participation Increases, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Bryant, A good story changes everything, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2012.

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]

M.J.O. Murphy, Friday File, New York Times (2014) C32.

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	Carbohydrate Research
Abbreviation	Carbohydr. Res.
ISSN (print)	0008-6215
Scope	Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Organic Chemistry General Medicine