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

Scalapino DJ. Physics. This coincidence cannot be accidental. Science. 319(5869), 1492–1493 (2008).

A journal article with 2 authors

DeVore NM, Scott EE. Structures of cytochrome P450 17A1 with prostate cancer drugs abiraterone and TOK-001. Nature. 482(7383), 116–119 (2012).

A journal article with 3 authors

Rosin-Arbesfeld R, Townsley F, Bienz M. The APC tumour suppressor has a nuclear export function. Nature. 406(6799), 1009–1012 (2000).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pellegrini M, Celeste A, Difilippantonio S, et al. Autophosphorylation at serine 1987 is dispensable for murine Atm activation in vivo. Nature. 443(7108), 222–225 (2006).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hogan K. The Secret Language of Business. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hemforth B, Mertins B, Fabricius-Hansen C, editors. Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Rahwan I, Amgoud L. An Argumentation-Based Approach for Practical Reasoning. In: Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, ArgMAS 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006 Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Maudet N, Parsons S, Rahwan I (Eds.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 74–90 (2007).

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. Could Jurassic Park Ever Come True? [Internet]. IFLScience (2014). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/could-jurassic-park-ever-come-true/.

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. Intelligent Transportation Systems: Vehicle-to-Vehicle Technologies Expected to Offer Safety Benefits, but a Variety of Deployment Challenges Exist. 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

McAvoy DL. Coming of age with Shakespeare: The convergence of American youth culture and high culture since the 1980s. (2012).

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

Vecsey G. Family and Friendship In Stately Victor’s Name. New York Times, B15 (2010).

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

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