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

de Duve C. The joy of discovery. Nature 2010; 467:S5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wickware P, Smaglik P. Labs and companies seek their niches as work continues after the draft. Nature 2001; 409:961–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brummelkamp TR, Bernards R, Agami R. A system for stable expression of short interfering RNAs in mammalian cells. Science 2002; 296:550–3.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Holden LG, Prochnow C, Chang YP, Bransteitter R, Chelico L, Sen U, Stevens RC, Goodman MF, Chen XS. Crystal structure of the anti-viral APOBEC3G catalytic domain and functional implications. Nature 2008; 456:121–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jiang J, Zhang C. Fundamentals and Applications of Lithium-ion Batteries in Electric Drive Vehicles. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Rivas L. Detection and Typing Strategies for Pathogenic Escherichia coli. New York, NY: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Economopoulos KJ. The Role of Femoroacetabular Impingement in the Etiology of Athletic Pubalgia and Sports Hernias. In: Diduch DR, Brunt LM, editors. Sports Hernia and Athletic Pubalgia: Diagnosis and Treatment. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2014. page 55–65.

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

O`Callaghan J. NASA Has A Huge Announcement To Make - Here’s How You Can Watch Live [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-announce-major-new-planet-discovery-kepler-tomorrow-and-you-can-watch-it-live/

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. USDA Telecommunications. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thirumal VM. Production of Microbial Lipids from Lipomyces starkeyi. 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

Chapman MM, Bosman J. Man Guilty of Murdering Woman at His Front Door. New York Times2014; :A12.

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

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