How to format your references using the Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews citation style

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

Zewail, A. H. (2001). The fog that was not. Nature, 412(6844), 279.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aharonov, Y., & Zubairy, M. S. (2005). Time and the quantum: erasing the past and impacting the future. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5711), 875–879.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jankowski, P., McKellar, A. R. W., & Szalewicz, K. (2012). Theory untangles the high-resolution infrared spectrum of the ortho-H2-CO van der Waals complex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6085), 1147–1150.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Scheel, O., Zdebik, A. A., Lourdel, S., & Jentsch, T. J. (2005). Voltage-dependent electrogenic chloride/proton exchange by endosomal CLC proteins. Nature, 436(7049), 424–427.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Radoine, H. (2017). Architecture in Context. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Mutsvairo, B. (Ed.). (2016). Participatory Politics and Citizen Journalism in a Networked Africa: A Connected Continent. Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Clark, P. E., & Rilee, M. L. (2010). Longwave Region: Mid to Thermal Infrared, Microwave, and Radio. In M. L. Rilee (Ed.), Remote Sensing Tools for Exploration: Observing and Interpreting the Electromagnetic Spectrum (pp. 178–252). Springer.

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 and Genetic Engineering Reviews.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015, November 11). Which Country Consumes The Most Calories? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/which-countries-consume-most-amount-calories/

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. (1977). A Selected Bibliography on Computer Software Conversion (090884). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kim, C. S. (2017). Electronic Transport of Thin Crystals in Ruthenium Chloride [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Wagner, J. (2016, September 20). Mets’ Reed Finds Dominance in the Heart of the Plate. New York Times, B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zewail, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Aharonov & Zubairy, 2005; Zewail, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Aharonov & Zubairy, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Scheel et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews
Abbreviation	Biotechnol. Genet. Eng. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0264-8725
ISSN (online)	2046-5556
Scope	Biotechnology Molecular Biology Bioengineering