How to format your references using the The FASEB Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The FASEB Journal (FASEB). 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	Download the output style file
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

Bulinski, J. C. (2006) Cell biology. Actin discrimination. Science 313, 180–181

A journal article with 2 authors

Kummamuru, R. K. and Soh, Y.-A. (2008) Electrical effects of spin density wave quantization and magnetic domain walls in chromium. Nature 452, 859–863

A journal article with 3 authors

Martin-Lluesma, S., Stucke, V. M., and Nigg, E. A. (2002) Role of Hec1 in spindle checkpoint signaling and kinetochore recruitment of Mad1/Mad2. Science 297, 2267–2270

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Arnett, H. A., Fancy, S. P. J., Alberta, J. A., Zhao, C., Plant, S. R., Kaing, S., Raine, C. S., Rowitch, D. H., Franklin, R. J. M., and Stiles, C. D. (2004) bHLH transcription factor Olig1 is required to repair demyelinated lesions in the CNS. Science 306, 2111–2115

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins, B. R. (2009) Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Costello, L. and Singh, K., eds. (2009) Mitochondria and Cancer. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Pfliegler, G. (2016) Visual and Oculomotor Disorders in Internal Diseases. In Neuro-Ophthalmology (Somlai, J. and Kovács, T., eds) pp. 19–25, Springer International Publishing, Cham

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 The FASEB Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014) Scientists Discover Earliest Known Evidence of Bone Marrow. IFLScience

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. (2005) Aviation Safety: System Safety Approach Needs Further Integration into FAA’s Oversight of Airlines.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boysen, J. (2008) The ESCRT machinery, required for endosomal trafficking, is a pH-signaling platform. Columbia University, New York, NY

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

Kelly, M. (1992) A Life of Advantage, Enhanced by the Will to Excel. New York Times, July 17, 1992, p. A9

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	The FASEB Journal
Abbreviation	FASEB J.
ISSN (print)	0892-6638
ISSN (online)	1530-6860
Scope	Biochemistry Biotechnology Genetics Molecular Biology