CBE Annotated Bibliography
Style Guide
Revised March 2005

What is an Annotated Bibliography?

An annotated bibliography is an organized list of sources in a specific citation format, each followed by a brief note or annotation. For this project you will provide an alphabetically organized, annotated bibliography of the resources your group uses. The citation will be in CBE format detailed below. The second part will be composed of two parts, a 2-3 sentence summary of the article and a 2-3 sentence evaluation which explains credibility and usefulness of source to your research.

Here is an example:

Kuret JA, Murad F. 1990. Adenohypophyseal hormones and related substances. In: Gilman AG, Rall TW, Nies AS, Taylor P, editors. The pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 8th ed. New York: Pergamon; p 1334.

Summary: This article looks at adenohypophyseal hormones and the substances closely related to them in chemical design. It described the uses for these hormones and their interchangibility in medications. Kuret and Murad also detailed future drugs that would be using these hormones as their basic component.
Evaluation: The article provided more detailed background on my subject area I hadn’t found previously. The possible future use of the hormones was particularly helpful.

CBE Style format:

This handout is a guide to preparing citations in CBE name-year style here at Augustana College. It is based on the official guide, Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors and Publishers, 1994 found at REF T11.S386 1994. Details are on the gray handout or on the Library homepage, http://www.augustana.edu/library, Sciences, then Science Resource Guide under Biology.

Follow the basic format tips explained here and then adapt to the particular type of resource you are using. Each example will give the general formatting rules and then an example. The most important element is to be consistent in your approach.

Some tips:

• Each group of bibliographic elements is separated by a period.

• Elements within a group of equal weight are separated by commas.

• For three or more authors of any material, use et al. to indicate additional authors.

• If date includes month and day, list as year month day. Abbreviate month to three letters.

• Single word titles are not abbreviated.

• Journal abbreviations can be found in Periodical Title Abbreviations  at REF PN 4832 .P4 2001 or a number of web based resources like ISI Journal Abbreviations List at http://library.caltech.edu/reference/abbreviations.

Book:  Author(s) or editor(s). Year. Title. Edition if other than first. Place of publication: publisher name; page(s) cited.

Voet D, Voet JG. 1990. Biochemistry. New York: J Wiley. p 619.

Gilman AG, RAll TW, Nies AS,  Taylor P, editors. 1990. The pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 8th ed. New York: Pergamon, p 181.

Book chapter, or other part with different author: Author(s) or editor(s) of chapter. Year. Title of chapter. In: continue as you would with regular book citation.

Kuret JA, Murad F. 1990. Adenohypophyseal hormones and related substances. In: Gilman AG, Rall TW, Nies AS, Taylor P, editors. The pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 8th ed. New York: Pergamon. p 1334-60.

Journal article: Author(s). Year. Article Title. Journal title using abbreviations. Volume(issue number): inclusive pages.

Johnson DL, Lynch WE Jr. 1992. Panfish use of and angler success at evergreen tree, brush, and stake-bed structures. N Am J Fish Manage 12(1):222-9

Organization as author: Organization. Year. Article Title. Journal title using abbreviations. Volume(issue number): inclusive pages.

Scandinavian Society for Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Physiology, Committee on Enzymes. 1976. Recommended method for the determination of y-glutamyltransferase in blood. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 36: 119-25.

Electronic journal articles: Author(s). Date of publication year month day if available. Title of article. Abbreviated journal title[type of medium]; volume(issue number): pages cited. Availablity statement. Access date.

Slater PJB, Jones AE. 1990. Timing of songs and distance call learning in zebra finches. Anim Behav [serial online]; 49(2):123-248. Available from: Ebsco Academic Search. Accessed 2003 Nov 15.

Conference publication: Author(s). Date of publication. Title of paper. Connective phrase: Editors of proceedings. Title of publication or name of conference, or both; inclusive dates of conference; place of conference. Place of publication: publisher, pages cited.

Meyer B, Hermanns K. 1985. Formaldehyde release from pressed wood products. In: Turoski V. editor. Formaldehyde: analytical chemistry and toxicology. Proceedings of the symposium at the 187th meeting of the American Chemical Society; 1984 Apr 8-13; St. Louis, MO. Washington: American Chemical Society. p 101-6.

Web Resources: Author(s) or Organization. Date of publication or last revision. Title of article. Web page title if different from the first field. <URL, in angle brackets>. Access date.

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. 2001 Jul 1. Report of the brain tumor progress review group. < http://www.ninds.nih.gov/about_ninds/btprg/BTPRGReport.htm>. Accessed 2003 Dec 8.

Hesser DP. 2001. Living with a brain tumor: a guide for brain tumor patients. American Brain Tumor Association. < http://www.abta.org/buildingknowledge4.htm/>. Accessed 2003 Dec 8.

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