How to format your references using the Current Research in Biotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Research in Biotechnology. 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

Plasterk, R.H.A., 2002. RNA silencing: the genome’s immune system. Science 296, 1263–1265.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kang, S., Douglas, T., 2010. Biochemistry. Some enzymes just need a space of their own. Science 327, 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mitrovica, J.X., Gomez, N., Clark, P.U., 2009. The sea-level fingerprint of West Antarctic collapse. Science 323, 753.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zimmermann, M., Murina, O., Reijns, M.A.M., Agathanggelou, A., Challis, R., Tarnauskaitė, Ž., Muir, M., Fluteau, A., Aregger, M., McEwan, A., Yuan, W., Clarke, M., Lambros, M.B., Paneesha, S., Moss, P., Chandrashekhar, M., Angers, S., Moffat, J., Brunton, V.G., Hart, T., de Bono, J., Stankovic, T., Jackson, A.P., Durocher, D., 2018. CRISPR screens identify genomic ribonucleotides as a source of PARP-trapping lesions. Nature 559, 285–289.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bower, J.A., 2013. Statistical Methods for Food Science. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Wiering, M., Otterlo, M. van (Eds.), 2012. Reinforcement Learning: State-of-the-Art, Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Drusini, A., 2016. Anthropology and Bio-cultural Adaptation of the Ancient Nasca Inhabitants, in: Lasaponara, R., Masini, N., Orefici, G. (Eds.), The Ancient Nasca World: New Insights from Science and Archaeology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 87–100.

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 Current Research in Biotechnology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Extremely Rare Mineral Found In 450 Million Year Old Meteorite Impact Crater [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/extremely-rare-mineral-found-450-million-year-old-meteorite-impact-crater/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1975. Federal Funding Provided to 10 Police Departments for Intelligence Activities (No. GGD-76-20). 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

Perelygin, K., 2012. Developing physics simulations with OpenCL on a graphics processing unit (Doctoral dissertation). 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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Walking Tentatively In Protesters’ Shoes. New York Times D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Plasterk, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kang and Douglas, 2010; Plasterk, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Kang and Douglas, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Zimmermann et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Research in Biotechnology
ISSN (print)	2590-2628
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