How to format your references using the Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Gibbons A. Archaeology. Humans may have reached Chile by 18,500 years ago. Science. 2015;350:898.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Waterhouse PM, Hellens RP. Plant biology: Coding in non-coding RNAs. Nature. 2015;520:41–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Raty J-Y, Schwegler E, Bonev SA. Electronic and structural transitions in dense liquid sodium. Nature. 2007;449:448–51.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ferraz G, Nichols JD, Hines JE, Stouffer PC, Bierregaard RO Jr, Lovejoy TE. A large-scale deforestation experiment: effects of patch area and isolation on Amazon birds. Science. 2007;315:238–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Horváth T. Understanding Lightning and Lightning Protection. Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Zhang T, editor. Future Computer, Communication, Control and Automation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Alonso J, Paredes R, Rosso P. Empirical Evaluation of Different Feature Representations for Social Circles Detection. In: Paredes R, Cardoso JS, Pardo XM, editors. Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: 7th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2015, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 17-19, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 31–8.

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 Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture.

Blog post

1. Davis J. New Glasses May Allow The Wearer To See Colors Not Usually Visible [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-glasses-may-allow-the-wearer-to-see-colors-not-usually-visible/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 Workforce: Current and Future Availability of Aviation Engineering and Maintenance Professionals. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Feb. Report No.: GAO-14-237.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Skiold-Hanlin S. Functional and Ecological Aspects of the Mucus Trails of the Freshwater Gastropod Elimia potosiensis [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2015.

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. Luongo MT. In Detroit, a Theater Establishes a Beat. New York Times. 2017 Oct 25;AR6.

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	Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture
Abbreviation	Chem. Biol. Technol. Agric.
ISSN (online)	2196-5641
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