How to format your references using the Biocontrol Science and Technology citation style

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

Colman, S. M. (2002). Paleoclimate. A fresh look at glacial floods. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5571), 1251–1252.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cossart, P., & Sansonetti, P. J. (2004). Bacterial invasion: the paradigms of enteroinvasive pathogens. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5668), 242–248.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dillin, A., Crawford, D. K., & Kenyon, C. (2002). Timing requirements for insulin/IGF-1 signaling in C. elegans. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5594), 830–834.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Li, H., Zhou, W., Liu, Y., Dong, X., Zhang, C., Miao, C., Zhang, M., Li, E., & Tang, C. (2014). Preliminary investigation of an SOI-based arrayed waveguide grating demodulation integration microsystem. Scientific Reports, 4, 4848.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolf, E. L. (2012). Nanophysics of Solar and Renewable Energy. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Jawahar, C. V., & Shan, S. (Eds.). (2015). Computer Vision - ACCV 2014 Workshops: Singapore, Singapore, November 1-2, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (Vol. 9008). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Garg, A. D., & Agostinis, P. (2015). Autophagy Induced by Photodynamic Therapy (PDT): Shaping Resistance Against Cell Death and Anti-Tumor Immunity. In V. Rapozzi & G. Jori (Eds.), Resistance to Photodynamic Therapy in Cancer (pp. 99–116). Springer International Publishing.

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 Biocontrol Science and Technology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, September 9). Costa Rica Has Been Running On 100% Renewable Electricity For 76 Days... And Counting. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/costa-rica-has-been-running-on-100-renewable-electricity-for-76-days-and-counting/

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. (2003). DOD Business Systems Modernization: Continued Investment in Key Accounting Systems Needs to be Justified (GAO-03-465). 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

Pappa, D. M. (2002). A Study of Various Process Factors in the Scale Up of a High Shear Granulated Product [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Eligon, J. (2017, October 9). Trauma, and Red Tape, in Las Vegas. New York Times, A2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Colman, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Colman, 2002; Cossart & Sansonetti, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Cossart & Sansonetti, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biocontrol Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Biocontrol Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0958-3157
ISSN (online)	1360-0478
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Insect Science