How to format your references using the Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Barnes, D.K.A., 2002. Biodiversity: invasions by marine life on plastic debris. Nature 416, 808–809.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vojvodic, A., Nørskov, J.K., 2011. Chemistry. Optimizing perovskites for the water-splitting reaction. Science 334, 1355–1356.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meyer zu Heringdorf, F.J., Reuter, M.C., Tromp, R.M., 2001. Growth dynamics of pentacene thin films. Nature 412, 517–520.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, J., Wei, D., He, K., Gong, H., Wang, P., 2014. Encapsulating urban traffic rhythms into road networks. Sci. Rep. 4, 4141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Akiba, K.-Y., 2011. Organo Main Group Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Devillers, R., Valmari, A. (Eds.), 2015. Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency: 36th International Conference, PETRI NETS 2015, Brussels, Belgium, June 21-26, 2015, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Fernández-Tobías, I., Campos, P.G., Cantador, I., Díez, F., 2013. A Contextual Modeling Approach for Model-Based Recommender Systems, in: Bielza, C., Salmerón, A., Alonso-Betanzos, A., Hidalgo, J.I., Martínez, L., Troncoso, A., Corchado, E., Corchado, J.M. (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 15th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2013, Madrid, Spain, September 17-20, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 42–51.

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 Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Bats Have Touch Sensors in their Wings [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1995. Land Management Systems: Progress and Risks in Developing BLM’s Land and Mineral Record System (No. AIMD-95-180). 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

Stefania, S., 2017. From Italian American Icon to Working Class Hero: Perspectives on Pietro di Donato’s “Christ in Concrete” (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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. Exit Hammet, Enter Holmes. New York Times E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barnes, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Barnes, 2002; Vojvodic and Nørskov, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Vojvodic and Nørskov, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology
Abbreviation	Biocatal. Agric. Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)	1878-8181
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science Biotechnology Bioengineering Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology