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

Hoag, H., 2015. Molecular biology: Marked progress. Nature 527, S114-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Armakolas, A., Klar, A.J.S., 2007. Left-right dynein motor implicated in selective chromatid segregation in mouse cells. Science 315, 100–101.

A journal article with 3 authors

Myrskylä, M., Kohler, H.-P., Billari, F.C., 2009. Advances in development reverse fertility declines. Nature 460, 741–743.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dollar, G.L., Weber, U., Mlodzik, M., Sokol, S.Y., 2005. Regulation of Lethal giant larvae by Dishevelled. Nature 437, 1376–1380.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Panek, W., Wentworth, T., 2010. Mastering Microsoft® Windows® 7 Administration. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA.

An edited book

Rodríguez-Bolívar, M.P. (Ed.), 2014. Measuring E-government Efficiency: The Opinions of Public Administrators and Other Stakeholders, Public Administration and Information Technology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Matsuoka, S., 2007. The TSUBAME Cluster Experience a Year Later, and onto Petascale TSUBAME 2.0, in: Cappello, F., Herault, T., Dongarra, J. (Eds.), Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface: 14th European PVM/MPI User’s Group Meeting, Paris, France, September 30 - October 3, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 8–9.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Stem Cell Therapy Success In Monkeys [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/stem-cell-therapy-success-monkeys/ (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, 2013. Information Technology: Consistently Applying Best Practices Could Help IRS Improve the Reliability of Reported Cost and Schedule Information (No. GAO-13-401). 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

Gardner, R.D., 2010. A time course analysis of stem cell activity following brain injury in food-storing black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) (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

Johnson, G., 2016. Feeding the Particle Physics Beast. New York Times D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Armakolas and Klar, 2007; Hoag, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Armakolas and Klar, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Dollar et al., 2005)

About the journal

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