How to format your references using the HAYATI Journal of Biosciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for HAYATI Journal of Biosciences. 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

Baker, M., 2010. RNA interference: Homing in on delivery. Nature 464, 1225–1228.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xiong, Y., Steitz, T.A., 2004. Mechanism of transfer RNA maturation by CCA-adding enzyme without using an oligonucleotide template. Nature 430, 640–645.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chouard, T., Weiss, U., Dhand, R., 2002. Good “omics” for the poor? Nature 419, 489.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lou, S.N., Yap, N., Scott, J., Amal, R., Ng, Y.H., 2014. Influence of MoO3(110) crystalline plane on its self-charging photoelectrochemical properties. Sci. Rep. 4, 7428.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zelterman, D., 2005. Discrete Distributions: Applications in the Health Sciences, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Banks, C.E., 2016. Screen-Printing Electrochemical Architectures, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Cremonesi, P., Modica, P., Pagano, R., Rabosio, E., Tanca, L., 2015. Personalized and Context-Aware TV Program Recommendations Based on Implicit Feedback, in: Stuckenschmidt, H., Jannach, D. (Eds.), E-Commerce and Web Technologies: 16th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, EC-Web 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 57–68.

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 HAYATI Journal of Biosciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Hearing Restored in Mice with Genetic Deafness using Gene Therapy [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1998. Air Traffic Control: Timely Completion of FAA’s Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System Software Is at Risk (No. AIMD-98-41R). 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

Hood, E.P., 2015. Male teacher perspective on the recruitment of male elementary teachers: A phenomenological study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2016. Chasing Abortion Rights Across the State Line. New York Times SR5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baker, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Baker, 2010; Xiong and Steitz, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Xiong and Steitz, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lou et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	HAYATI Journal of Biosciences
ISSN (print)	1978-3019
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