How to format your references using the Biological Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biological Control. 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	Download the output style file
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

Dalcanton, J.J., 2009. 18 years of science with the Hubble Space Telescope. Nature 457, 41–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

Andreae, M.O., Ramanathan, V., 2013. Climate change. Climate’s dark forcings. Science 340, 280–281.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mastrobuono-Battisti, A., Perets, H.B., Raymond, S.N., 2015. A primordial origin for the compositional similarity between the Earth and the Moon. Nature 520, 212–215.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vulliamy, T., Marrone, A., Goldman, F., Dearlove, A., Bessler, M., Mason, P.J., Dokal, I., 2001. The RNA component of telomerase is mutated in autosomal dominant dyskeratosis congenita. Nature 413, 432–435.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Belsey, C., 2011. A Future for Criticism. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Oliehoek, F.A., 2016. A Concise Introduction to Decentralized POMDPs, SpringerBriefs in Intelligent Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Multiagent Systems, and Cognitive Robotics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Haddad, M.R., Baazaoui, H., Aufaure, M.A., Claramunt, C., Lechevallier, Y., Ghezala, H.B., 2009. Towards an Integration of Space and Accessibility in Web Personalization, in: Carswell, J.D., Fotheringham, A.S., McArdle, G. (Eds.), Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems: 9th International Symposium, W2GIS 2009, Maynooth, Ireland, December 7-8, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 39–55.

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 Biological Control.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Bilingual Chimps Can Grunt “Apple” in Two Languages [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bilingual-chimps-can-grunt-apple-two-languages/ (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

Government Accountability Office, 1990. Issues That Need to Be Considered in Formulating Strategies to Reduce Aviation Noise (No. T-RCED-90-111). 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

Lopez, V., 2015. The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978: A policy analysis (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Nuila, R., 2017. Medical Misfits. New York Times SR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalcanton, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Andreae and Ramanathan, 2013; Dalcanton, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Andreae and Ramanathan, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Vulliamy et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biological Control
Abbreviation	Biol. Control
ISSN (print)	1049-9644
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Insect Science