How to format your references using the BioEnergy Research citation style

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

Centola D (2010) The spread of behavior in an online social network experiment. Science 329:1194–1197

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolff EW, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK. ewwo@bas.ac.uk (2003) Ocean science. Whither Antarctic sea ice? Science 302:1164

A journal article with 3 authors

Segawa Y, Yamashita M, Nozaki K (2006) Boryllithium: isolation, characterization, and reactivity as a boryl anion. Science 314:113–115

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Huang L-C, Pan X, Yang H, et al (2013) Linking genotype to phenotype on beads: high throughput selection of peptides with biological function. Sci Rep 3:3030

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walker M (2013) Happy-People-Pills For All. Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Hagan JJ (2011) Molecular and Functional Models in Neuropsychiatry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Couclelis H (2007) Misses, near-misses and surprises in forecasting the informational city. In: Miller HJ (ed) Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 71–83

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 BioEnergy Research.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) Archaeologist Claims To Have Found Aristotle’s Tomb. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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) Balancing Flexibility and Accountability: Grant Program Design in Education and Other Areas. 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

Hill JA (2012) Classical three-body systems and the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Shpigel B (2017) U.S. to Face Honduras With a Depleted Roster. New York Times B12

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	BioEnergy Research
Abbreviation	Bioenergy Res.
ISSN (print)	1939-1234
ISSN (online)	1939-1242
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Energy (miscellaneous) Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment