How to format your references using the Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 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]

White N. Imaging black holes. Nature 2000;407:146–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Tzeng S-R, Kalodimos CG. Dynamic activation of an allosteric regulatory protein. Nature 2009;462:368–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Miake J, Marbán E, Nuss HB. Biological pacemaker created by gene transfer. Nature 2002;419:132–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hwang J, Pototschnig M, Lettow R, Zumofen G, Renn A, Götzinger S, et al. A single-molecule optical transistor. Nature 2009;460:76–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Determining the Probability of Ignition of a Released Flammable Mass. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Apikyan SA, Diamond DJ, editors. Nuclear Power and Energy Security. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kubin I, Commendatore P, Sushko I. Some Dynamical Models in Regional Economics: Economic Structure and Analytic Tools. In: Bischi GI, Panchuk A, Radi D, editors. Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems, Tools and Applications for Economic Modelling: Lectures Given at the COST Training School on New Economic Complex Geography at Urbino, Italy, 17-19 September 2015, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 213–56.

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 Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. There Are Still Active Volcanoes On Venus. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/venus-still-has-volcanoes/ (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 Insurance: Issues Related to the Reauthorization of FAA’s Aviation Insurance Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Donohue J. Resolving Past Liabilities for Future Reduction in Greenhouse Gases; Nuclear Energy and the Outstanding Federal Liability of Spent Nuclear Fuel. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2010.

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]

Chapman MM, Maynard M. Thousands Line Up at Ballpark For Farewell to Voice of Tigers. New York Times 2010:B12.

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	Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
Abbreviation	Comput. Struct. Biotechnol. J.
ISSN (print)	2001-0370
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Biotechnology Genetics Structural Biology Computer Science Applications