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

Jansen, L.E.T., 2012. Genetics. Sowing the seeds of centromeres. Science 335, 299–300.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pulk, A., Cate, J.H.D., 2013. Control of ribosomal subunit rotation by elongation factor G. Science 340, 1235970.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lund, D.C., Lynch-Stieglitz, J., Curry, W.B., 2006. Gulf Stream density structure and transport during the past millennium. Nature 444, 601–604.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dale, J.K., Maroto, M., Dequeant, M.-L., Malapert, P., McGrew, M., Pourquie, O., 2003. Periodic notch inhibition by lunatic fringe underlies the chick segmentation clock. Nature 421, 275–278.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Olofsson, P., 2006. Probabilities. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Seli, E., Agarwal, A. (Eds.), 2012. Fertility Preservation: Emerging Technologies and Clinical Applications. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

D’Alessandro, C., Léautier, F., 2016. Leadership, Spirals, and Trajectories, in: Léautier, F. (Ed.), Cities and Spaces of Leadership: A Geographical Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 54–76.

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

Fang, J., 2014. Eagle Flight Recorder Reveals Clever Wing Tuck Trick [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/eagle-flight-recorder-reveals-clever-wing-tuck-trick/ (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, 1976. Coordination of Government Research and Development (No. 094665). 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

Pahuja, S., 2013. Bandwidth feedback effects on retained movements in young and old adults (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

Lee, L., 2013. Bring On The Wind And Water. New York Times D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jansen, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Jansen, 2012; Pulk and Cate, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Pulk and Cate, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Dale et al., 2003)

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