How to format your references using the Biocontrol Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biocontrol Science and Technology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Kreeger, K. (2003). The learning curve. Nature, 424(6945), 234–235.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martienssen, R. A., & Colot, V. (2001). DNA methylation and epigenetic inheritance in plants and filamentous fungi. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5532), 1070–1074.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stollewerk, A., Schoppmeier, M., & Damen, W. G. M. (2003). Involvement of Notch and Delta genes in spider segmentation. Nature, 423(6942), 863–865.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Powell, P. A., Wesley, C., Spencer, S., & Cagan, R. L. (2001). Scabrous complexes with Notch to mediate boundary formation. Nature, 409(6820), 626–630.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Valière, J.-C. (2014). Acoustic Particle Velocity Measurements Using Lasers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Nixon, P. J., & Sims, I. (Eds.). (2016). RILEM Recommendations for the Prevention of Damage by Alkali-Aggregate Reactions in New Concrete Structures: State-of-the-Art Report of the RILEM Technical Committee 219-ACS (1st ed. 2016, Vol. 17). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Pinsker, R. (2007). A Theoretical Framework for Examining the Corporate Adoption Decision Involving XBRL as a Continuous Disclosure Reporting Technology. In C. Felden & M. Piechocki (Eds.), New Dimensions of Business Reporting and XBRL (pp. 73–98). DUV.

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 Science and Technology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, March 1). New State of Matter Discovered. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-state-matter-discovered/

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). Telecommunications: FCC Needs to Improve Performance Management and Strengthen Oversight of the High-Cost Program (GAO-08-633). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Lim, T. (2017). Information-Theoretic Aspects of Signal Analysis and Reconstruction [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Rappeport, A. (2017, June 8). Measure to Loosen Dodd-Frank Banking Rules Passes the House. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kreeger, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kreeger, 2003; Martienssen & Colot, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Martienssen & Colot, 2001)
Three authors: (Stollewerk et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Powell et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biocontrol Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Biocontrol Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0958-3157
ISSN (online)	1360-0478
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Insect Science