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

Mayor, S., 2005. Coming home. Nature 436, 488–489.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lau, W., Sattely, E.S., 2015. Six enzymes from mayapple that complete the biosynthetic pathway to the etoposide aglycone. Science 349, 1224–1228.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aravanis, A.M., Pyle, J.L., Tsien, R.W., 2003. Single synaptic vesicles fusing transiently and successively without loss of identity. Nature 423, 643–647.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wu, C., Cheng, Y.-Y., Yin, H., Song, X.-N., Li, W.-W., Zhou, X.-X., Zhao, L.-P., Tian, L.-J., Han, J.-C., Yu, H.-Q., 2013. Oxygen promotes biofilm formation of Shewanella putrefaciens CN32 through a diguanylate cyclase and an adhesin. Sci. Rep. 3, 1945.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tms, 2011. Engineering Solutions for Sustainability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Löwe, W., Südholt, M. (Eds.), 2006. Software Composition: 5th International Symposium, SC 2006 Vienna, Austria, March 25-26, 2006 Revised Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Postema, P.G., Christiaans, I., Hofman, N., Alders, M., Koopmann, T.T., Bezzina, C.R., Loh, P., Zeppenfeld, K., Volders, P.G.A., Wilde, A.A.M., 2014. Founder mutations in the Netherlands: familial idiopathic ventricular fibrillation and DPP6*, in: Wilde, Arthur A. M., Tintelen, J.P. van (Eds.), Founder Mutations in Inherited Cardiac Diseases in the Netherlands. Bohn Stafleu van Loghum, Houten, pp. 29–35.

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

Taub, B., 2016. Even Google’s Former Boss Can’t Answer The Company’s Notorious Job Interview Questions [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/even-googles-former-boss-cant-answer-companys-notorious-job-interview-questions/ (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, 2001. Electronic Government: Better Information Needed on Agencies’ Implementation of the Government Paperwork Elimination Act (No. GAO-01-1100). 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

Johnson, D.M., 2015. Prison nursery programs: Measuring society’s perceptions and support (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

Greenhouse, L., 2006. Justices Uphold a Death Sentence Twice Overturned. New York Times A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mayor, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lau and Sattely, 2015; Mayor, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Lau and Sattely, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al., 2013)

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