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

Sarewitz D. World view: Tomorrow never knows. Nature. 463(7277), 24 (2010).

A journal article with 2 authors

Shekhawat GS, Dravid VP. Nanoscale imaging of buried structures via scanning near-field ultrasound holography. Science. 310(5745), 89–92 (2005).

A journal article with 3 authors

Blake RE, Chang SJ, Lepland A. Phosphate oxygen isotopic evidence for a temperate and biologically active Archaean ocean. Nature. 464(7291), 1029–1032 (2010).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shiddiky MJA, Vaidyanathan R, Rauf S, Tay Z, Trau M. Molecular nanoshearing: an innovative approach to shear off molecules with AC-induced nanoscopic fluid flow. Sci. Rep. 4, 3716 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zadora G, Martyna A, Ramos D, Aitken C. Statistical Analysis in Forensic Science. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Bokulich A, Bokulich P, editors. Scientific Structuralism. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Wille R, Drechsler R. Exact Synthesis of Reversible Logic. In: Towards a Design Flow for Reversible Logic. Drechsler R (Ed.), Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 57–91 (2010).

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. Traces of atmospheric water found on five exoplanets [Internet]. IFLScience (2013). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/traces-atmospheric-water-found-five-exoplanets/.

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. Social Security Administration: Improved Planning and Performance Measures Are Needed to Help Ensure Successful Technology Modernization. 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

O’Byrne SM. Metabolic and pathological role of retinyl esters: The role of lecithin:retinol acyl transferase, (LRAT). (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

Kishkovsky S. Former Arsenal Houses Museum in Kiev, Ukraine. New York Times, TR2 (2011).

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