How to format your references using the Biofuel Research Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biofuel Research Journal. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

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Dyson, F.J., 2012. History of science. Is science mostly driven by ideas or by tools? Science 338(6113), 1426–1427

A journal article with 2 authors

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Williams, R.J., Martinez, N.D., 2000. Simple rules yield complex food webs. Nature 404(6774), 180–183

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bezryadin, A., Lau, C.N., Tinkham, M., 2000. Quantum suppression of superconductivity in ultrathin nanowires. Nature 404(6781), 971–974

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Hole, J.A., Catchings, R.D., St Clair, K.C., Rymer, M.J., Okaya, D.A., Carney, B.J., 2001. Steep-dip seismic imaging of the shallow San Andreas fault near Parkfield. Science 294(5546), 1513–1515

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Olofsson, P., 2006. Probabilities. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

[1]

Alfaro, E.J., Pérez, E., Franco, J. (Eds.), 2005. How does the Galaxy Work?: A Galactic Tertulia with Don Cox and Ron Reynolds, Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

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Seffah, A., Metzker, E., 2009. ACUE Architecture and Components, in: Seffah, A., Metzker, E. (Eds.), Adoption-Centric Usability Engineering: Systematic Deployment, Assessment and Improvement of Usability Methods in Software Engineering. Springer, London, pp. 59–71

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 Biofuel Research Journal.

Blog post

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Andrew, E., 2014. What Is Going On In Lake Erie? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-going-lake-erie/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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

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Government Accountability Office, 2010. Rail Safety: Federal Railroad Administration Should Report on Risks to the Successful Implementation of Mandated Safety Technology (No. GAO-11-133). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Othmanawny, G., 2017. Soaked and Unsoaked Performance of Crushed Gravel and Limestone Aggregates (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL

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

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Shpigel, B., 2017. Obliviously, Wentz Fuels The Eagles’ Giddy Rise. New York Times B7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dyson, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Williams and Martinez, 2000; Dyson, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Williams and Martinez, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Hole et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biofuel Research Journal
ISSN (print)	2292-8782
Scope