How to format your references using the BioResources citation style

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

Mutter, J. (2010). “Disasters widen the rich-poor gap,” Nature, 466(7310), 1042.

A journal article with 2 authors

Birren, S. J., and Marder, E. (2013). “Neuroscience. Plasticity in the neurotransmitter repertoire,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6131), 436–437.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, M., Carman, C. V., and Springer, T. A. (2003). “Bidirectional transmembrane signaling by cytoplasmic domain separation in integrins,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5640), 1720–1725.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bonke, M., Thitamadee, S., Mähönen, A. P., Hauser, M.-T., and Helariutta, Y. (2003). “APL regulates vascular tissue identity in Arabidopsis,” Nature, 426(6963), 181–186.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruske, W. (1971). Verlag Chemie 1921-1971, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Lupacchini, R., and Angelini, A. (Eds.). (2014). The Art of Science: From Perspective Drawing to Quantum Randomness, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Sonnemann, T. F., Malatesta, E. H., and Hofman, C. L. (2016). “Applying UAS Photogrammetry to Analyze Spatial Patterns of Indigenous Settlement Sites in the Northern Dominican Republic,” in: Digital Methods and Remote Sensing in Archaeology: Archaeology in the Age of Sensing, Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences, M. Forte and S. Campana, eds., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 71–87.

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.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). “Drones To Be Employed in Kenyan Anti-Poaching Effort,” IFLScience, IFLScience, <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/drones-be-employed-kenyan-anti-poaching-effort/> (Oct. 30, 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. (2010). Propane and Heating Oil: Federal Oversight of the Propane Education and Research Council and National Oilheat Research Alliance Should Be Strengthened, 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

Ladd, R. J. (2014). “A Study of Alternative Education Programs in the State of Missouri,” Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Billard, M. (2010). “You Can’t Pop Up Forever,” New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mutter 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Birren and Marder 2013; Mutter 2010).

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

Two authors: (Birren and Marder 2013)
Three or more authors: (Bonke et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	BioResources
Abbreviation	Bioresources
ISSN (print)	1930-2126
Scope	Bioengineering Environmental Engineering Waste Management and Disposal