How to format your references using the Biotechnology Advances citation style

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

Wadsworth, P., 2003. Cell biology. Persistence pays. Science 300, 1675–1677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Satheesh, S.K., Ramanathan, V., V., 2000. Large differences in tropical aerosol forcing at the top of the atmosphere and Earth’s surface. Nature 405, 60–63.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hiraga, T., Anderson, I.M., Kohlstedt, D.L., 2004. Grain boundaries as reservoirs of incompatible elements in the Earth’s mantle. Nature 427, 699–703.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Daqing, L., Yinan, J., Rui, K., Havlin, S., 2014. Spatial correlation analysis of cascading failures: congestions and blackouts. Sci. Rep. 4, 5381.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leibowitz, M.L., Bova, A., Hammond, P.B., 2010. The Endowment Model of Investing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bilko, N.M., Fehse, B., Ostertag, W., Stocking, C., Zander, A.R. (Eds.), 2008. Stem Cells and their Potential for Clinical Application, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Gábor, A., Banga, J.R., 2014. Improved Parameter Estimation in Kinetic Models: Selection and Tuning of Regularization Methods, in: Mendes, P., Dada, J.O., Smallbone, K. (Eds.), Computational Methods in Systems Biology: 12th International Conference, CMSB 2014, Manchester, UK, November 17-19, 2014, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 45–60.

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 Biotechnology Advances.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. This Extremely Rare Disease Keeps You Awake For The Rest Of Your Life [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/extremely-rare-disease-keeps-you-awake-rest-your-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, 1978. NORAD’s Information Processing Improvement Program: Will It Enhance Mission Capability? (No. LCD-78-117). 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

Woods, R.A., 2017. Missouri Legislator and Administrator Perceptions of Federal Government Involvement in Education (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. Park as Long As You Like. New York Times E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wadsworth, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Satheesh and Ramanathan, 2000; Wadsworth, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Satheesh and Ramanathan, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Daqing et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biotechnology Advances
Abbreviation	Biotechnol. Adv.
ISSN (print)	0734-9750
Scope	Biotechnology