How to format your references using the BioControl citation style

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

Mardis ER (2011) A decade’s perspective on DNA sequencing technology. Nature 470:198–203

A journal article with 2 authors

Rella SF, Uchida M (2014) A Southern Ocean trigger for Northwest Pacific ventilation during the Holocene? Sci Rep 4:4046

A journal article with 3 authors

Titus SL, Wells JA, Rhoades LJ (2008) Repairing research integrity. Nature 453:980–982

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Miao D, Margolis CA, Gao W, et al (2018) Genomic correlates of response to immune checkpoint therapies in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Science 359:801–806

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jacobsson M, Niemegeers I, Heemstra de Groot S (2010) Personal Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Rimondini M (ed) (2011) Communication in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Rais-Bahrami S, Gilbert BR (2015) Penile Ultrasound. In: Gilbert BR (ed) Ultrasound of the Male Genitalia. Springer, New York, NY, pp 125–155

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 BioControl.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Stranded Astronauts Will Return To Earth After Month-Long Delay. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-stranded-astronauts-return-earth/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2009) NASA: Projects Need More Disciplined Oversight and Management to Address Key Challenges. 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

Besson PS (2015) Affective Organizational Commitment: A Comparative View of the Experience of 5-7 Year Managerial Employees Who Participated in an Employee Identity Network. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Wines M, Bosman J (2017) A ‘Passionate’ Seeker of Voter Fraud in Kansas Gets a National Soapbox. New York Times A12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mardis 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Mardis 2011; Rella and Uchida 2014).

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

Two authors: (Rella and Uchida 2014)
Three or more authors: (Miao et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	BioControl
Abbreviation	Biocontrol (Dordrecht)
ISSN (print)	1386-6141
ISSN (online)	1573-8248
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Insect Science