How to format your references using the Biochemical Systematics and Ecology citation style

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

Russell, T.P., 2013. Materials science. Polymers find plenty of wiggle room at the bottom. Science 341, 1351–1352.

A journal article with 2 authors

Micchelli, C.A., Perrimon, N., 2006. Evidence that stem cells reside in the adult Drosophila midgut epithelium. Nature 439, 475–479.

A journal article with 3 authors

Manoukis, N.C., Hall, B., Geib, S.M., 2014. A computer model of insect traps in a landscape. Sci. Rep. 4, 7015.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lui, C.H., Liu, L., Mak, K.F., Flynn, G.W., Heinz, T.F., 2009. Ultraflat graphene. Nature 462, 339–341.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hitchner, J.R., 2017. Financial Valuation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mercier-Laurent, E., Boulanger, D. (Eds.), 2014. Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management: First IFIP WG 12.6 International Workshop, AI4KM 2012, Held in Conjunction with ECAI 2012, Montpellier, France, August 28, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Isla, A., 2015. Greening Costa Rica, in: Mitchell, R.C., Moore, S.A. (Eds.), Planetary Praxis & Pedagogy: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Sustainability. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 73–93.

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 Systematics and Ecology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. What We’ve Learned From Science This Year [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/things-science-has-taught-us-year/ (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, 1986. Contract Pricing: Subcontractor Prices Overstated on AN/TSQ-111 Communications Contract (No. NSIAD-86-166). 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

Davis, P.J., 2009. A comparison of a high and low -performing school in the Soroti Catholic Diocese, Uganda, East -Africa (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, 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

Grynbaum, M.M., 2017. A Network vs. the President. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Russell, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Micchelli and Perrimon, 2006; Russell, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Micchelli and Perrimon, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Lui et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biochemical Systematics and Ecology
Abbreviation	Biochem. Syst. Ecol.
ISSN (print)	0305-1978
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Biochemistry