How to format your references using the Bioresource Technology Reports citation style

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

Macilwain, C., 2015. Rejection of GM crops is not a failure for science. Nature 525, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chklovskii, D.B., Bargmann, C.I., 2012. Neuroscience. The mind of a male? Science 337, 416–417.

A journal article with 3 authors

White, L.E., Coppola, D.M., Fitzpatrick, D., 2001. The contribution of sensory experience to the maturation of orientation selectivity in ferret visual cortex. Nature 411, 1049–1052.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gulick, S.P.S., Shevenell, A.E., Montelli, A., Fernandez, R., Smith, C., Warny, S., Bohaty, S.M., Sjunneskog, C., Leventer, A., Frederick, B., Blankenship, D.D., 2017. Initiation and long-term instability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Nature 552, 225–229.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarkar, T.K., Salazar-Palma, M., Mokole, E.L., 2007. Physics of Multiantenna Systems and Broadband Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Baranauskas, M.C.C., Liu, K., Sun, L., Neris, V.P. de A., Bonacin, R., Nakata, K. (Eds.), 2016. Socially Aware Organisations and Technologies. Impact and Challenges: 17th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2016, Campinas, Brazil, August 1-3, 2016, Proceedings, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Tsujimoto, Y., 2007. Suppression of Cavitation Instabilities, in: d’Agostino, L., Salvetti, M.V. (Eds.), Fluid Dynamics of Cavitation and Cavitating Turbopumps, CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences. Springer, Vienna, pp. 211–229.

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 Reports.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Supernova Core Imaged For the First Time [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/supernova-core-imaged-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, 2012. School Bullying: Legal Protections for Vulnerable Youth Need to Be More Fully Assessed (No. GAO-12-785T). 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

Shirley, A., 2012. Connecting foster children with their siblings within a summer camp setting: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Paulson, M., 2017. ‘Brilliant,’ 41, And Lost to AIDS: The Theater World Asks Why. New York Times AR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Chklovskii and Bargmann, 2012; Macilwain, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Chklovskii and Bargmann, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Gulick et al., 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bioresource Technology Reports
ISSN (print)	2589-014X
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