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

Gravitz L (2011) Diagnostics: The early bird. Nature 480:S36-7

A journal article with 2 authors

Bian Y, Gong Q (2014) Tuning the hybridization of plasmonic and coupled dielectric nanowire modes for high-performance optical waveguiding at sub-diffraction-limited scale. Sci Rep 4:6617

A journal article with 3 authors

Krauss LM, Dodelson S, Meyer S (2010) Primordial gravitational waves and cosmology. Science 328:989–992

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Biterge B, Richter F, Mittler G, Schneider R (2014) Methylation of histone H4 at aspartate 24 by protein L-isoaspartate O-methyltransferase (PCMT1) links histone modifications with protein homeostasis. Sci Rep 4:6674

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sattler K (2005) Thermische Trennverfahren. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Triantaphyllou E, Felici G (eds) (2006) Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Approaches Based on Rule Induction Techniques. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Sorensen KA, Mohankumar S, Thangaraj SR (2016) Physical, Mechanical and Cultural Control of Vegetable Insects. In: Muniappan R, Heinrichs EA (eds) Integrated Pest Management of Tropical Vegetable Crops. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 131–148

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

Hale T (2016) Five Awesome Science Courses You Can Take Online Completely Free. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/five-awesome-science-courses-you-can-take-online-free/. 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 (1989) ICBM Modernization: Availability Problems and Flight Test Delays in Peacekeeper Program. 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

Azios M (2017) The College Experience of Stuttering: An Ethnographic Study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Kelly C (2009) Festival Lures Westchester’s High School Filmmakers. New York Times WE8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gravitz 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Gravitz 2011; Bian and Gong 2014).

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

Two authors: (Bian and Gong 2014)
Three or more authors: (Biterge et al. 2014)

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