How to format your references using the Bioresources and Bioprocessing citation style

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

Pelkmans L (2012) Cell Biology. Using cell-to-cell variability--a new era in molecular biology. Science 336:425–426

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwander T, Keller L (2008) Genetic compatibility affects queen and worker caste determination. Science 322:552

A journal article with 3 authors

Boyd RW, Chan KWC, O’Sullivan MN (2007) Physics. Quantum weirdness in the lab. Science 317:1874–1875

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Diebold SS, Montoya M, Unger H, et al (2003) Viral infection switches non-plasmacytoid dendritic cells into high interferon producers. Nature 424:324–328

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Qiuwei Wu (2013) Grid Integration of Electric Vehicles in Open Electricity Markets. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Zeng R (ed) (2016) Graphics-sequenced interpretation of ECG, 1st ed. 2016. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Takahashi N, Miyazaki T (2006) INTERACTION BETWEEN A COLUMNAR VORTEX AND EXTERNAL TURBULENCE. In: Kida S (ed) IUTAM Symposium on Elementary Vortices and Coherent Structures: Significance in Turbulence Dynamics: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held at Kyoto International Community House, Kyoto, Japan, 26-28 October 2004. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 31–38

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 Bioresources and Bioprocessing.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) LUX Dark Matter Detector Releases First Results. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/lux-dark-matter-detector-releases-first-results/. 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 (1991) Social Security: Measure of Telephone Service Accuracy Can Be Improved. 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

Strand K (2014) Applying Public Relations Theory to Assess Service-Learning Relationships. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

(nyt) SK (2002) World Briefing | Europe: Lithuania: Presidential Runoff. New York Times A6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pelkmans 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Schwander and Keller 2008; Pelkmans 2012).

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

Two authors: (Schwander and Keller 2008)
Three or more authors: (Diebold et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bioresources and Bioprocessing
Abbreviation	Bioresour. Bioprocess.
ISSN (online)	2197-4365
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