How to format your references using the Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery citation style

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

Stuart JS (2001) A near-Earth asteroid population estimate from the LINEAR survey. Science 294:1691–1693

A journal article with 2 authors

Canadell JG, Raupach MR (2008) Managing forests for climate change mitigation. Science 320:1456–1457

A journal article with 3 authors

Penmatsa A, Wang KH, Gouaux E (2013) X-ray structure of dopamine transporter elucidates antidepressant mechanism. Nature 503:85–90

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mitro N, Mak PA, Vargas L, et al (2007) The nuclear receptor LXR is a glucose sensor. Nature 445:219–223

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zheng F, Kaiser T (2016) Digital Signal Processing for RFID. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Bianchini JA, Akerson VL, Barton AC, et al (2013) Moving the Equity Agenda Forward: Equity Research, Practice, and Policy in Science Education. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Tsujimura N (2006) Why not all verbs are learned equally: The Intransitive Verb Bias in Japanese. In: Gagarina N, Gulzow I (eds) The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar: The Effect of Particular Languages. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 105–122

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 Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Million-Year-Old Monkey Fossil Discovered In Underwater Cave. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/million-year-old-monkey-fossil-discovered-underwater-cave/. 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) Aviation Security: FAA’s Deployments of Equipment to Detect Traces of Explosives. 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 DL (2012) A phenomenological investigation of science center exhibition developers’ expertise development. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Vecsey G (2011) The Ball at Their Feet, Their Fate in Their Hands. New York Times B13

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	Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery
Abbreviation	Biomass Convers. Biorefin.
ISSN (print)	2190-6815
ISSN (online)	2190-6823
Scope	Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment