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

Mátyás, C., 2010. Forecasts needed for retreating forests. Nature 464, 1271.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yun, M.H., Hiom, K., 2009. CtIP-BRCA1 modulates the choice of DNA double-strand-break repair pathway throughout the cell cycle. Nature 459, 460–463.

A journal article with 3 authors

Young, I.R., Zieger, S., Babanin, A.V., 2011. Global trends in wind speed and wave height. Science 332, 451–455.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hu, Q., Guo, W., Gao, Y., Tang, R., Li, D., 2014. Molecular cloning and analysis of gonadal expression of Foxl2 in the rice-field eel Monopterus albus. Sci. Rep. 4, 6884.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meyer, V.R., 2013. Pitfalls and Errors of HPLC in Pictures. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Liu, Q., Bai, Q., Giugni, S., Williamson, D., Taylor, J. (Eds.), 2013. Data Provenance and Data Management in eScience, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Toivonen, M., 2015. Social Innovations—Manifested in New Services and in New System Level Interactions, in: Kijima, K. (Ed.), Service Systems Science, Translational Systems Sciences. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 83–95.

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. Longer Migration Routes Led to Drab Female Warblers [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/longer-migration-routes-led-drab-female-warblers/ (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, 2007. Digital Television Transition: Preliminary Information on Initial Consumer Education Efforts (No. GAO-07-1248T). 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

Brenner, D.S., 2015. The Phonetics of Mandarin Tones in Conversation (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Harwood, J., 2017. Why Trumpism May Not Endure. New York Times A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mátyás, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Mátyás, 2010; Yun and Hiom, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Yun and Hiom, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Hu 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