How to format your references using the Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology (CBAB). 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

Eisenstein M (2012) Centenarians: Great expectations. Nature 492: S6-8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pedersen TR and Gerken EA (2005) Creation of visible artificial optical emissions in the aurora by high-power radio waves. Nature 433: 498–500.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morales R, Di Matteo T and Aste T (2014) Dependency structure and scaling properties of financial time series are related. Scientific reports 4: 4589.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li Y-L, Luo W, Chen X-J, Zeng Z, Lin H-Q and Ahuja R (2013) Formation of Nanofoam carbon and re-emergence of Superconductivity in compressed CaC6. Scientific reports 3: 3331.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Miller MB (2013) Mathematics and Statistics for Financial Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Biscari P (2014) Meccanica Razionale, 2a edizione Ruggeri T, Saccomandi G, and Vianello M (eds). Springer, Milano, XI, 398 paggp.

A chapter in an edited book

Mamalis N and Fuller SR (2014) Noninfectious Inflammation in Cataract Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p. 63–73. In Pleyer U, Alió JL, Barisani-Asenbauer T, Le Hoang P, and Rao NA (eds) Immune Modulation and Anti-Inflammatory Therapy in Ocular Disorders: IOIS Guidelines.

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 Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2017) Why You Should Date Your Best Friend. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at <https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-you-should-date-your-best-friend/> Accessed on 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

Government Accountability Office (1988) Use of Information Technology in Hospitals. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Caraballo-Cole T (2012) Mindfulness-based mental health services for single mothers: A grant proposal. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Yablonsky L (2009) Space Invader. p. M234.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenstein 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Pedersen and Gerken 2005, Eisenstein 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Pedersen and Gerken 2005)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology
Abbreviation	Crop Breed. Appl. Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)	1518-7853
ISSN (online)	1984-7033
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