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

Abbott, A., 2003. Human fatality adds fresh impetus to fight against bird flu. Nature 423, 5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heldin, C.H., Ericsson, J., 2001. Signal transduction. RIPping tyrosine kinase receptors apart. Science 294, 2111–2113.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reich, D.S., Mechler, F., Victor, J.D., 2001. Independent and redundant information in nearby cortical neurons. Science 294, 2566–2568.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stelmach-Mardas, M., Mardas, M., Warchoł, W., Jamka, M., Walkowiak, J., 2014. Successful maintenance of body weight reduction after individualized dietary counseling in obese subjects. Sci. Rep. 4, 6620.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maillard, P., 2013. Competitive Quality Strategies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Amsaleg, L., Houle, M.E., Schubert, E. (Eds.), 2016. Similarity Search and Applications: 9th International Conference, SISAP 2016, Tokyo, Japan, October 24-26, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Senk, S.L., Tatto, M.T., Reckase, M., Rowley, G., Peck, R., Bankov, K., 2014. Knowledge of Future Primary Teachers for Teaching Mathematics: An International Comparative Study, in: Blömeke, S., Hsieh, F.-J., Kaiser, G., Schmidt, W.H. (Eds.), International Perspectives on Teacher Knowledge, Beliefs and Opportunities to Learn: TEDS-M Results, Advances in Mathematics Education. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 61–90.

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

Carpineti, A., 2017. NASA Is Hunting Down A Runaway Black Hole [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-is-hunting-down-a-runaway-black-hole/ (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, 1994. Airlift Requirements: Commercial Freighters Can Help Meet Requirements at Greatly Reduced Costs (No. NSIAD-94-209). 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

Pierre, R.R., 2019. A Phenomenological Study of the Boomerang-Employment Experience of Scientists and Engineers (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Arvedlund, E.E., SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY; C.J. Chivers contributed reporting for this article, 2004. After a Spate of Bombings, Moscow’s Full of Foreboding. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2003; Heldin and Ericsson, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Heldin and Ericsson, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Stelmach-Mardas et al., 2014)

About the journal

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