How to format your references using the Cybium citation style

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

LÄHTEENMÄKI, R., 2002. - Finnish biotechnology--built on solid foundations. Nature, 420: A34-5, A37, A39.

A journal article with 2 authors

LONG, M.A. & FEE, M.S., 2008. - Using temperature to analyse temporal dynamics in the songbird motor pathway. Nature, 456: 189–194.

A journal article with 3 authors

MIYAZAWA, A., FUJIYOSHI, Y., & UNWIN, N., 2003. - Structure and gating mechanism of the acetylcholine receptor pore. Nature, 423: 949–955.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

NOLEN, B.J., TOMASEVIC, N., RUSSELL, A., PIERCE, D.W., JIA, Z., MCCORMICK, C.D., HARTMAN, J., SAKOWICZ, R., & POLLARD, T.D., 2009. - Characterization of two classes of small molecule inhibitors of Arp2/3 complex. Nature, 460: 1031–1034.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

WYSTUP, U., 2006. - FX Options and Structured Products. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

PERELMAN, Y., 2008. - The NeuroProcessor: An Integrated Interface to Biological Neural Networks. VIII, 122 p p. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

MICHALKE, T., FRITSCH, J., & GOERICK, C., 2008. - Enhancing Robustness of a Saliency-Based Attention System for Driver Assistance. In: Computer Vision Systems: 6th International Conference, ICVS 2008 Santorini, Greece, May 12-15, 2008 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Gasteratos, A., Vincze, M., & Tsotsos, J.K., eds.). pp. 43–55. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Cybium.

Blog post

HAMILTON, K., 2016. - Here’s How We Can Protect Ourselves From The Hidden Algorithms That Influence Our Lives [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/heres-how-we-can-protect-ourselves-from-the-hidden-algorithms-that-influence-our-lives/ (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, 1977. - Examination of Financial Operations for Fiscal Year 1975 Shows Need for Improvements in the Guaranteed Student Loan Program ( No. FOD-76-23). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

MUSTICO, J.P., 2010. - Perception and preference comparison of managers’ behaviors on sales and non -sales employees: A case study (Doctoral dissertation)Doctoral dissertationMinneapolis, MN: Capella University.

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

KOBLIN, J., 2017. - AMC and Comcast to Offer A Commercial-Free Option. New York Times, B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lähteenmäki, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Lähteenmäki, 2002; Long and Fee, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Long and Fee, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Nolen et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cybium
ISSN (print)	0399-0974
ISSN (online)	2101-0315
Scope