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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Moreno E (2014) Cancer: Darwinian tumour suppression. Nature 509:435–436

A journal article with 2 authors

Pessa HKJ, Frilander MJ (2011) Genetics. Minor splicing, disrupted. Science 332:184–185

A journal article with 3 authors

Finkel T, Deng C-X, Mostoslavsky R (2009) Recent progress in the biology and physiology of sirtuins. Nature 460:587–591

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kotz RI, Windhager R, Dominkus M, et al (2000) A self-extending paediatric leg implant. Nature 406:143–144

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Assing D, Calé S (2013) Mobile Access Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA

An edited book

Nielson HR (2007) Semantics with Applications: An Appetizer. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Stathi S, Roscini C (2016) Identity and Acculturation Processes in Multicultural Societies. In: McKeown S, Haji R, Ferguson N (eds) Understanding Peace and Conflict Through Social Identity Theory: Contemporary Global Perspectives. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 55–69

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

Luntz S (2014) Amazing Animation Compares The Mass Of Various Objects In The Solar System. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/amazing-animation-compares-mass-various-objects-solar-system/. 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 (1994) Health Care: Benefits and Barriers to Automated Medical Records. 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

Hardison A (2017) Achieving Literacy Excellence through Identifying and Utilizing High Yield Strategies. 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

Wilson M (2017) A Violent Encounter in Little Italy, and a ‘Tough Guy’ Winds Up on the Lam. New York Times A19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moreno 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Pessa and Frilander 2011; Moreno 2014).

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

Two authors: (Pessa and Frilander 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kotz et al. 2000)

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