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

Grayson M. Breast cancer. Nature 2012; 485:S49.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weinhold F, Landis CR. Chemistry. High bond orders in metal-metal bonding. Science 2007; 316:61–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hernández JV, Kay ER, Leigh DA. A reversible synthetic rotary molecular motor. Science 2004; 306:1532–7.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Baek S-H, Chung H-J, Lee H-K, D’Souza R, Jeon Y, Kim H-J, Kweon S-J, Hong S-T. Treatment of obesity with the resveratrol-enriched rice DJ-526. Sci Rep 2014; 4:3879.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Danby FW. Acne. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Lee C, Seigneur J-M, Park JJ, Wagner RR, editors. Secure and Trust Computing, Data Management, and Applications: STA 2011 Workshops: IWCS 2011 and STAVE 2011, Loutraki, Greece, June 28-30, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Suarez M, Rodrigo G, Carrera J, Jaramillo A. Computational Design in Synthetic Biology. In: Schmidt M, Kelle A, Ganguli-Mitra A, Vriend H, editors. Synthetic Biology: The technoscience and its societal consequences. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. page 49–63.

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. Human-Like Robot Beats Other Bots In DARPA’s Robotics Challenge [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/human-robot-beats-other-bots-darpas-robotice-challenge/

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. Student Testing: Current Extent and Expenditures, With Cost Estimates for a National Examination. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sefrit J. A study of the effectiveness of a school district’s mentoring /professional development plan for beginning teachers. 2008;

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

Markoff J. Start-Up Imagines Driverless Vehicles That Can Tell You Where They’re Going. New York Times2016; :B3.

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