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

Duffy TS (2011) Earth science: probing the core’s light elements. Nature 479:480–481

A journal article with 2 authors

Machin S, Pekkarinen T (2008) Assessment. Global sex differences in test score variability. Science 322:1331–1332

A journal article with 3 authors

Jan CH, Williams CC, Weissman JS (2015) LOCAL TRANSLATION. Response to Comment on “Principles of ER cotranslational translocation revealed by proximity-specific ribosome profiling.” Science 348:1217

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Holleitner AW, Blick RH, Huttel AK, et al (2002) Probing and controlling the bonds of an artificial molecule. Science 297:70–72

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Etheridge D (2010) Excel® Data Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Roeser S, Hillerbrand R, Sandin P, Peterson M (eds) (2013) Essentials of Risk Theory. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Féray V, Méliot P-L, Nikeghbali A (2016) An extended deviation result from bounds on cumulants. In: Méliot P-L, Nikeghbali A (eds) Mod-ϕ Convergence: Normality Zones and Precise Deviations. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 51–58

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

Davis J (2015) Chimps Are Capable Of Cooking Food. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chimps-have-mental-ability-cook-food/. 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 (2008) Traffic Safety: NHTSA’s Improved Oversight Could Identify Opportunities to Strengthen Management and Safety in Some States. 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

Lai J-P (2008) Phosphatase and Tensin Homolog Deleted on Chromosome Ten (PTEN) As A Molecular Target in Lung Epithelial Wound Repair and Protection. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Lehman S (2016) The Big Try-On. New York Times F4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Duffy 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Machin and Pekkarinen 2008; Duffy 2011).

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

Two authors: (Machin and Pekkarinen 2008)
Three or more authors: (Holleitner et al. 2002)

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