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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Nusse R. Cancer. Converging on beta-catenin in Wilms tumor. Science. 316(5827), 988–989 (2007).

A journal article with 2 authors

Turi L, Madarász A. Comment on “Does the hydrated electron occupy a cavity?” Science. 331(6023), 1387; author reply 1387 (2011).

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoeppner DJ, Hengartner MO, Schnabel R. Engulfment genes cooperate with ced-3 to promote cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature. 412(6843), 202–206 (2001).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fournier D, Estoup A, Orivel J, et al. Clonal reproduction by males and females in the little fire ant. Nature. 435(7046), 1230–1234 (2005).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gu X, Jiang N, Ji K, et al. Self-healing Control Technology for Distribution Networks. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Navarra A, Tubiana L, editors. Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean: Volume 3: Case Studies. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Meredith PJ. Attachment Theory and Pain. In: Improving Patient Treatment with Attachment Theory: A Guide for Primary Care Practitioners and Specialists. Hunter J, Maunder R (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 55–73 (2016).

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

Hamilton K. Do Women’s Periods Really Synch When They Spend Time Together? [Internet]. IFLScience (2016). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/do-womens-periods-really-synch-when-they-spend-time-together/.

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. Federal Family Education Loan Program: Statutory and Regulatory Changes Could Avert Billions in Unnecessary Federal Subsidy Payments. 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

Banerjee S. A mathematical model for the transition in firing patterns across puberty of a gonadotropin-releasing hormone neuron. (2013).

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

Feeney K. Self-Serve Sundaes. New York Times, NJ11 (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