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

Weinberg R (2010) Point: Hypotheses first. Nature 464:678

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberts L, Jasny B (2008) HIV/AIDS: money matters. Science 321:511

A journal article with 3 authors

Germain RN, Robey EA, Cahalan MD (2012) A decade of imaging cellular motility and interaction dynamics in the immune system. Science 336:1676–1681

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fraser JS, Clarkson MW, Degnan SC, et al (2009) Hidden alternative structures of proline isomerase essential for catalysis. Nature 462:669–673

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sawant RJ (2010) Infrastructure Investing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Pierson J-M (ed) (2006) Data Management in Grids: First VLDB Workshop, DMG 2005, Trondheim, Norway, September 2-3, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Denk R, Kaip M (2013) Triebel-Lizorkin spaces and the L p -L q -setting. In: Kaip M (ed) General Parabolic Mixed Order Systems in Lp and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 143–185

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 D (2016) Geomythology: Can Geologists Relate Ancient Stories Of Great Floods To Real Events? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/geomythology-can-geologists-relate-ancient-stories-of-great-floods-to-real-events/. 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 (2002) Surface and Maritime Transportation: Challenges and Strategies for Enhancing Mobility. 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

Moro JM (2017) School Improvement Grants at Work: A Study of Urban, Public New England Schools. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Murphy MJO (2015) Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times C28

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weinberg 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Roberts and Jasny 2008; Weinberg 2010).

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

Two authors: (Roberts and Jasny 2008)
Three or more authors: (Fraser et al. 2009)

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