How to format your references using the Biotechnology Research and Innovation citation style

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

Perkel, J. M. (2015). Lab-inventory management: Time to take stock. Nature, 524(7563), 125–126.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hotchkiss, R. S., & Sherwood, E. R. (2015). Immunology. Getting sepsis therapy right. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6227), 1201–1202.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li de la Sierra-Gallay, I., Pellegrini, O., & Condon, C. (2005). Structural basis for substrate binding, cleavage and allostery in the tRNA maturase RNase Z. Nature, 433(7026), 657–661.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Singleton, M. R., Dillingham, M. S., Gaudier, M., Kowalczykowski, S. C., & Wigley, D. B. (2004). Crystal structure of RecBCD enzyme reveals a machine for processing DNA breaks. Nature, 432(7014), 187–193.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarisky, D. (2012). Scriptural Interpretation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Proulx, T. (Ed.). (2011). Engineering Applications of Residual Stress, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

D’amico, R. (2007). Disease and the Concept of Supervenience. In H. Kincaid & J. McKitrick (Eds.), Establishing Medical Reality: Essays In The Metaphysics And Epistemology Of Biomedical Science (pp. 35–45). Springer Netherlands.

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 Research and Innovation.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, January 12). 13 New Pulsars Discovered Thanks To Citizen Science Project. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/13-new-pulsars-discovered-thanks-to-citizen-science-project/

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. (1996). Aviation Acquisition: A Comprehensive Strategy Is Needed for Cultural Change at FAA (RCED-96-159). 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

Lim, L. (2010). Dual-class vs. single-class firms: Information environment [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Feeney, K. (2009, April 26). A Fresh Pita Oasis, Plus Kebabs and Flatbreads. New York Times, NJ8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perkel, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hotchkiss & Sherwood, 2015; Perkel, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hotchkiss & Sherwood, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Singleton et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biotechnology Research and Innovation
Abbreviation	Biotechnol. Res. Innov.
ISSN (print)	2452-0721
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