How to format your references using the Biofuel Research Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biofuel Research Journal. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

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Koshland, D.E., Jr, 2002. Special essay. The seven pillars of life. Science 295(5563), 2215–2216

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

McGuire, J.A., Shen, Y.R., 2006. Ultrafast vibrational dynamics at water interfaces. Science 313(5795), 1945–1948

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lee, I.-H., Shin, S., Choi, T.-L., 2015. Materials science. Building supermicelles from simple polymers. Science 347(6228), 1310–1311

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Beyaz, S., Mana, M.D., Roper, J., Kedrin, D., Saadatpour, A., Hong, S.-J., Bauer-Rowe, K.E., Xifaras, M.E., Akkad, A., Arias, E., Pinello, L., Katz, Y., Shinagare, S., Abu-Remaileh, M., Mihaylova, M.M., Lamming, D.W., Dogum, R., Guo, G., Bell, G.W., Selig, M., Nielsen, G.P., Gupta, N., Ferrone, C.R., Deshpande, V., Yuan, G.-C., Orkin, S.H., Sabatini, D.M., Yilmaz, Ö.H., 2018. Author Correction: High-fat diet enhances stemness and tumorigenicity of intestinal progenitors. Nature 560(7717), E26

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Forsberg, K., Mansdorf, S.Z., 2005. Quick Selection Guide to Chemical Protective Clothing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

[1]

Müller-Tomfelde, C. (Ed.), 2010. Tabletops - Horizontal Interactive Displays, Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ball, M., 2016. The ‘Prison of Love’ and Its Queer Discontents: On the Value of Paranoid and Reparative Readings in Queer Criminological Scholarship, in: Dwyer, A., Ball, M., Crofts, T. (Eds.), Queering Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 54–79

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 Biofuel Research Journal.

Blog post

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Fang, J., 2015. Spikes In Seawater Acidity Linked To Coral Reef Growth [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/spikes-seawater-acidity-linked-coral-reef-growth/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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

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Government Accountability Office, 1970. Overstatement of Contract Target Cost for First Stage of Saturn V Launch Vehicle (No. B-161366). 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

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Allison, C.L., 2015. An Investigation into the Experiences of Traditional Higher Education Instructors Transitioning into Effective Online Instructors (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ

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

[1]

Cooper, M., 2017. Watching Neo-Nazis in Virginia, From Germany. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koshland, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Koshland, 2002; McGuire and Shen, 2006).

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

Two authors: (McGuire and Shen, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Beyaz et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biofuel Research Journal
ISSN (print)	2292-8782
Scope