How to format your references using the Biochemical Engineering Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biochemical Engineering Journal. 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 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

[1]

K. Bourzac, Therapy: An immune one-two punch, Nature 528 (2015) S134-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.W. Loehlin, S.B. Carroll, Evolutionary biology: Sex, lies and butterflies, Nature 507 (2014) 172–173.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Xiao, R. Li, M. Chen, Detecting sedimentary cycles using autocorrelation of grain size, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1653.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Fouchier, T. Kuiken, G. Rimmelzwaan, A. Osterhaus, Global task force for influenza, Nature 435 (2005) 419–420.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Y.S. Lee, Self-Assembly and Nanotechnology Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

G. Gartner, F. Ortag, eds., Cartography in Central and Eastern Europe: CEE 2009, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T.Y. Ng, S.C. Joshi, J. Yeo, Z. Liu, Effects of Nanoporosity on the Mechanical Properties and Applications of Aerogels in Composite Structures, in: S.A. Meguid (Ed.), Advances in Nanocomposites: Modeling, Characterization and Applications, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 97–126.

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 Biochemical Engineering Journal.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Mad Cow Disease Protein May Play A Role In Depression, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/mad-cow-disease-protein-may-play-role-depression/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Surface Transportation: Funding Limitations and Barriers To Cross-Modal Decision Making, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Sanchez, For imagination and love – The permanence of the Mexican father who fathers at a distance, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2012.

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

[1]

L. Greenhouse, Justices to Enter the Debate Over Lethal Injection, New York Times (2007) A24.

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	Biochemical Engineering Journal
Abbreviation	Biochem. Eng. J.
ISSN (print)	1369-703X
Scope	Biotechnology Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering Environmental Engineering