How to format your references using the Bioengineered citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bioengineered. 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

Russell P. Photonic crystal fibers. Science 2003; 299:358–62.

A journal article with 2 authors

Margueron R, Reinberg D. The Polycomb complex PRC2 and its mark in life. Nature 2011; 469:343–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Suzuki H, Imura J-I, Aihara K. Chaotic Ising-like dynamics in traffic signals. Sci Rep 2013; 3:1127.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Erlebacher J, Aziz MJ, Karma A, Dimitrov N, Sieradzki K. Evolution of nanoporosity in dealloying. Nature 2001; 410:450–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Remy J-G, Letamendia C. LTE Services. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Rehm G, Uszkoreit H, editors. The Finnish Language in the Digital Age. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Tomás-Rodríguez M, Banks SP. General Spectral Theory of Nonlinear Systems. In: Banks SP, editor. Linear, Time-varying Approximations to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: with Applications in Control and Optimization. London: Springer; 2010. page 61–74.

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 Bioengineered.

Blog post

Andrew E. Meteor Explodes Over Canada [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/meteor-explodes-over-canada/

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. Information Systems: Agencies Overlook Security Controls During Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Saurage-Altenloh SM. The Measured Influence of Supplier CSR on Brand Performance Expectations in B2B Relationships. 2017;

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

Koblin J, Grynbaum MM. Kelly May Get Morning Slot, Shaking Up ‘Today.’ New York Times2017; :B4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Bioengineered
Abbreviation	Bioeng. Bugs
ISSN (print)	1949-1018
ISSN (online)	1949-1026
Scope	Biotechnology Bioengineering Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology