How to format your references using the Bioengineered citation style

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

Mank JE. Journal club. An evolutionary biologist compares genomic complexity to modern art. Nature 2009; 461:701.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stagon SP, Huang H. Airtight metallic sealing at room temperature under small mechanical pressure. Sci Rep 2013; 3:3066.

A journal article with 3 authors

Briggs F, Mangun GR, Usrey WM. Attention enhances synaptic efficacy and the signal-to-noise ratio in neural circuits. Nature 2013; 499:476–80.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mahon MJ, Donowitz M, Yun CC, Segre GV. Na(+)/H(+ ) exchanger regulatory factor 2 directs parathyroid hormone 1 receptor signalling. Nature 2002; 417:858–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weinberg MA, Froum SJ. The Dentist’s Drug and Prescription Guide. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,; 2012.

An edited book

Hatamura Y, editor. Decision-Making in Engineering Design: Theory and Practice. London: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Baujard A, Igersheim H. Framed-field Experiment on Approval Voting and Evaluation Voting. Some Teachings to Reform the French Presidential Electoral System. In: Dolez B, Grofman B, Laurent A, editors. In Situ and Laboratory Experiments on Electoral Law Reform: French Presidential Elections. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. page 69–89.

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 Bioengineered.

Blog post

Evans K. NASA’s $1 Billion Jupiter Probe Has Suffered 2 Big Problems In 2 Days [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-one-billion-jupiter-probe-suffered-2-big-problems-in-2-days/

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. Follow Through: Lessons Learned From Its Evaluation and Need To Improve Its Administration. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Choi Y-J. Function of Commissureless and Related Genes in Drosophila Neural Development. 2003;

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

Steinmetz P by G. Let a Hundred McMansions Bloom. New York Times2014; :MM51.

In-text citations

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

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	Bioengineered
Abbreviation	Bioeng. Bugs
ISSN (print)	1949-1018
ISSN (online)	1949-1026
Scope	Biotechnology Bioengineering Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology