How to format your references using the Biofuels citation style

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

Becchetti FD. Nuclear fusion. Evidence for nuclear reactions in imploding bubbles. Science. 295(5561), 1850 (2002).

A journal article with 2 authors

Lindenbach BD, Rice CM. Unravelling hepatitis C virus replication from genome to function. Nature. 436(7053), 933–938 (2005).

A journal article with 3 authors

Morales R, Di Matteo T, Aste T. Dependency structure and scaling properties of financial time series are related. Sci. Rep. 4, 4589 (2014).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

She Q, Peng X, Zillig W, Garrett RA. Gene capture in archaeal chromosomes. Nature. 409(6819), 478 (2001).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolf RA. Atmospheric Pressure Plasma for Surface Modification. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Workman RB, Coleman RE, editors. PET/CT: Essentials for Clinical Practice. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Aoyagi S, Okamura T, Ishii H, Shimoda H. Proposal of a Method for Promotion of Pro Environmental Behavior with Loose Social Network. In: Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2010: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Global COE Program “Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming—Toward CO2 Zero-emission Energy System.” Yao T (Ed.), Springer Japan, Tokyo, 43–48 (2011).

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 Biofuels.

Blog post

Andrew E. Ask A Physicist To Speak At Your Funeral [Internet]. IFLScience (2014). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/ask-physicist-speak-your-funeral-0/.

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. Transportation: Federal Assessments Levied on Commercial Maritime Industry. 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

Culumber JJ. Physician Practice Survival: The Role of Analytics in Shaping the Future. (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

Poniewozik J. Where the Rogue Cop Rules. New York Times, C1 (2017).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Biofuels
Abbreviation	Biofuels
ISSN (print)	1759-7269
ISSN (online)	1759-7277
Scope	Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Waste Management and Disposal