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

Lichten M. Molecular biology. Putting the breaks on meiosis. Science 2015; 350:913.

A journal article with 2 authors

Solomon JH, Hartmann MJ. Biomechanics: robotic whiskers used to sense features. Nature 2006; 443:525.

A journal article with 3 authors

Neumann G, Noda T, Kawaoka Y. Emergence and pandemic potential of swine-origin H1N1 influenza virus. Nature 2009; 459:931–9.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gao X, Lu F, Zhou L, Dang S, Sun L, Li X, Wang J, Shi Y. Structure and mechanism of an amino acid antiporter. Science 2009; 324:1565–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sallaberry C. Geographical Information Retrieval in Textual Corpora. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Guveli A. Intergenerational Consequences of Migration: Socio-economic, Family and Cultural Patterns of Stability and Change in Turkey and Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Bansaye V, Méléard S. Continuous State Branching Processes. In: Bansaye V, editor. Stochastic Models for Structured Populations: Scaling Limits and Long Time Behavior. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. page 29–38.

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. Engineering’s Unexpected And Microscopic Beauty [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/engineering-s-unexpected-and-microscopic-beauty/

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. Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Morgan TM. Do You See What I See? How Symbol Integration Facilitates Responsibility to Self and Culture. 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

Qiu L. Pre-Existing Conditions: There’s Truth-Stretching From Both Sides. New York Times2017; :A13.

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