How to format your references using the BioTechnologia citation style

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

Schneier B. 2012. Securing medical research: a cybersecurity point of view. Science. 336(6088):1527–1529

A journal article with 2 authors

Mudd JO, Kass DA. 2008. Tackling heart failure in the twenty-first century. Nature. 451(7181):919–928

A journal article with 3 authors

Truckses DM, Garrenton LS, Thorner J. 2004. Jekyll and Hyde in the microbial world. Science. 306(5701):1509–1511

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Cam HP et al. 2008. Host genome surveillance for retrotransposons by transposon-derived proteins. Nature. 451(7177):431–436

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Worth SM. 2010. The Association Guide to Going Global. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bailey DL, Townsend DW, Valk PE, Maisey MN, editors. 2005. Positron Emission Tomography: Basic Sciences. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Weir EK et al. 2005. Redox Signaling in Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction. In: Bhattacharya J, editor. Cell Signaling in Vascular Inflammation. Humana Press; p 27–33

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 BioTechnologia.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2015. IFLScience; [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/glass-based-paint-could-stop-metal-surfaces-getting-too-hot-sunlight/

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. 1989. Aviation Research: Information on FAA’s Research, Engineering, and Development Program. U.S. Government Printing Office. Report No.: RCED-89-122FS.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Decker KM. 2013. A study of relationships between counselor education, social justice advocacy competence, and likelihood to advocate [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella University.

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

St. John Kelly E. 1995. The Life and Times Of a Young Rock Band. New York Times. 131

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schneier 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Mudd and Kass 2008; Schneier 2012).

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

Two authors: (Mudd and Kass 2008)
Three or more authors: (Cam et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	BioTechnologia
ISSN (print)	0860-7796
ISSN (online)	2353-9461
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