How to format your references using the Biotechnology Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biotechnology Journal (BJT). 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

Reines, A. E. (2014). Astrophysics: Giant black hole in a stripped galaxy. Nature, 513(7518), 322–323.

A journal article with 2 authors

Parashar, U. D., & Glass, R. I. (2006). Public health. Progress toward rotavirus vaccines. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5775), 851–852.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lu, Z., Klem, A. M., & Ramu, Y. (2001). Ion conduction pore is conserved among potassium channels. Nature, 413(6858), 809–813.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Sali, A., Glaeser, R., Earnest, T., & Baumeister, W. (2003). From words to literature in structural proteomics. Nature, 422(6928), 216–225.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krichen, S., & Chaouachi, J. (2014). Graph-Related Optimization and Decision Support Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ciuprina, G., & Ioan, D. (Eds.). (2007). Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering (Vol. 11). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cadoret, A. (2012). Note on the Gonality of Abstract Modular Curves. In J. Stix (Ed.), The Arithmetic of Fundamental Groups: PIA 2010 (pp. 89–106). 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 Journal.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2016, July 5). More Male Alpine Plants In A Warmer, Drier World. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/more-male-alpine-plants-in-a-warmer-drier-world/

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. (1992). Intermodal Freight Transportation: Combined Rail-Truck Service Offers Public Benefits, but Challenges Remain (RCED-93-16). 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

Pestano, A. C. (2017). The Utilization of a Web-Based Internet Application to Improve Access and Efficiency of In-Home Care Services Provided by Personal Care Aides [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

Corkery, M. (2017, August 10). Sales Drop at Macy’s Punishes Its Stock. New York Times, B5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference ^[1].
This sentence cites two references ^[1,2].
This sentence cites four references ^[1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Biotechnology Journal
ISSN (print)	1860-6768
ISSN (online)	1860-7314
Scope