How to format your references using the Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. 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

Sack FD (2004) Plant sciences. Yoda would be proud: valves for land plants. Science 304:1461–1462

A journal article with 2 authors

Ramachandran V, Chen X (2008) Degradation of microRNAs by a family of exoribonucleases in Arabidopsis. Science 321:1490–1492

A journal article with 3 authors

Song C, Wang P, Makse HA (2008) A phase diagram for jammed matter. Nature 453:629–632

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kang T-W, Choi SW, Yang S-R, et al (2014) Growth arrest and forced differentiation of human primary glioblastoma multiforme by a novel small molecule. Sci Rep 4:5546

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hens HSLC (2012) Performance Based Building Design 2. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Märgner V, El Abed H (2012) Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Ben-Chaim D, Keret Y, Ilany B-S (2012) A Mathematical Perspective of Ratio and Proportion. In: Ben-Chaim D, Keret Y, Ilany B-S (eds) Ratio and Proportion: Research and Teaching in Mathematics Teachers’ Education (Pre- and In-Service Mathematics Teachers of Elementary and Middle School Classes). SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp 23–47

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 Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery.

Blog post

Hale T (2015) Burger King’s Halloween Burger Does Something Scary To Your Poop. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/burger-kings-halloween-burger-gives-you-spooky-green-poop/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1996) Satellite Control Capabilities: National Policy Could Help Consolidation and Cost Savings. 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

Lowden MR (2008) Genesis of end-to-end chromosome fusions. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Isherwood C (2016) The Best Religion? A Believer Answers. New York Times C3

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	Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery
Abbreviation	Biomass Convers. Biorefin.
ISSN (print)	2190-6815
ISSN (online)	2190-6823
Scope	Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment