How to format your references using the Bioresource Technology citation style

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

Strunk, C., 2004. Applied physics. Boosting magnetoresistance in molecular devices. Science 306, 63–64.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cottrell, E., Kelley, K.A., 2013. Redox heterogeneity in mid-ocean ridge basalts as a function of mantle source. Science 340, 1314–1317.

A journal article with 3 authors

Marinova, M.M., Aharonson, O., Asphaug, E., 2008. Mega-impact formation of the Mars hemispheric dichotomy. Nature 453, 1216–1219.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gambardella, P., Dallmeyer, A., Maiti, K., Malagoli, M.C., Eberhardt, W., Kern, K., Carbone, C., 2002. Ferromagnetism in one-dimensional monatomic metal chains. Nature 416, 301–304.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fernandes, R., 2014. Local and Regional Flaps in Head & Neck Reconstruction. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

El-Alfy, E.-S.M., Thampi, S.M., Takagi, H., Piramuthu, S., Hanne, T. (Eds.), 2015. Advances in Intelligent Informatics, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Hanson, G.R., Noble, C.J., Benson, S., 2013. XSophe – Sophe – XeprView and Molecular Sophe: Computer Simulation Software Suites for the Analysis of Continuous Wave and Pulsed EPR and ENDOR Spectra, in: Lund, A., Shiotani, M. (Eds.), EPR of Free Radicals in Solids I: Trends in Methods and Applications, Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 223–283.

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 Bioresource Technology.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2017. Rediscovered Essay Reveals Churchill’s Thoughts On Alien Life [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/rediscovered-essay-reveals-churchills-thoughts-on-alien-life/ (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, 2009. School Facilities: Physical Conditions in School Districts Receiving Impact Aid for Students Residing on Indian Lands (No. GAO-10-32). 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

Saha, P., 2008. Application hardware-software co-design for reconfigurable computing systems (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Feeney, K., 2006. So Greek, So Good. New York Times NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Strunk, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Cottrell and Kelley, 2013; Strunk, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Cottrell and Kelley, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Gambardella et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bioresource Technology
Abbreviation	Bioresour. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0960-8524
Scope	Bioengineering Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Environmental Engineering Waste Management and Disposal General Medicine