How to format your references using the Biological Control citation style

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

Gershon, D., 2005. Thinking big Texas. Nature 434, 1160–1161.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rashid, H., Boyle, E.A., 2007. Mixed-layer deepening during Heinrich events: a multi-planktonic foraminiferal delta18O approach. Science 318, 439–441.

A journal article with 3 authors

Michael, H.A., Mulligan, A.E., Harvey, C.F., 2005. Seasonal oscillations in water exchange between aquifers and the coastal ocean. Nature 436, 1145–1148.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Clark, P.U., Marshall, S.J., Clarke, G.K., Hostetler, S.W., Licciardi, J.M., Teller, J.T., 2001. Freshwater forcing of abrupt climate change during the last glaciation. Science 293, 283–287.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jaffe, J., 2010. Flip the Funnel. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Oswald Spring, Ú. (Ed.), 2011. Water Resources in Mexico: Scarcity, Degradation, Stress, Conflicts, Management, and Policy, Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Escolar, M.L., Aldenhoven, M., 2013. Leukodystrophies and Lysosomal Storage Disorders, in: Boelens, J.J., Wynn, R. (Eds.), Stem Cell Therapy in Lysosomal Storage Diseases, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 63–125.

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 Biological Control.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. Scientists Have Peered Inside The Dwarf Planet Ceres For The First Time [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-peer-inside-ceres-for-the-first-time/ (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

Government Accountability Office, 1997. Surface Transportation: Prospects for Innovation Through Research, Intelligent Transportation Systems, State Infrastructure Banks, and Design-Build Contracting (No. T-RCED-97-83). 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

Young, W., 2012. Diamagnetism of a supersonic rotating magnetized plasma (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. Back on the Mound, Harvey Has Issues With Command. New York Times D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon, 2005; Rashid and Boyle, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Rashid and Boyle, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Clark et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biological Control
Abbreviation	Biol. Control
ISSN (print)	1049-9644
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Insect Science