How to format your references using the Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering citation style

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

Neylon C (2012) Science publishing: Open access must enable open use. Nature 492:348–349

A journal article with 2 authors

Keightley PD, Otto SP (2006) Interference among deleterious mutations favours sex and recombination in finite populations. Nature 443:89–92

A journal article with 3 authors

Tanjeem N, Kawazoe T, Yatsui T (2013) CO2 phonon mode renormalization using phonon-assisted energy up-conversion. Sci Rep 3:3341

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ho CJH, Balasundaram G, Driessen W, et al (2014) Multifunctional photosensitizer-based contrast agents for photoacoustic imaging. Sci Rep 4:5342

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Massari M, Gianfrate G, Zanetti L (2016) Corporate Valuation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Vahid-Araghi O (2011) Friction-Induced Vibration in Lead Screw Drives. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Kim H-J, Seo KK, Lee H-K, Kim J (2016) Clinical Anatomy of the Lower Face for Filler Injection. In: Seo KK, Lee H-K, Kim J (eds) Clinical Anatomy of the Face for Filler and Botulinum Toxin Injection. Springer, Singapore, pp 153–174

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 Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Ancient River Dolphin Relative Discovered In Peru Desert. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-river-dolphin-relative-discovered-peru-desert/. 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 (1988) ADP Modernization: IRS’ Tax System Redesign Progress and Plans for the Future. 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

Oduntan A (2017) The Rheological Study of the Effects of Surfactant and Hydrophilic Bentonite Nano clay on Oil in Water Emulsions for Enhanced Oil Recovery. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Kelly C (2008) Start-Up Church Calls Diner Home. New York Times WE2

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	Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering
Abbreviation	Bioprocess Biosyst. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1615-7591
ISSN (online)	1615-7605
Scope	Biotechnology Bioengineering General Medicine