How to format your references using the Biophysical Economics and Resource Quality citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biophysical Economics and Resource Quality. 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

Murphy JP (2013) Tumbleweeds and indelicate questions. Nature 494:512

A journal article with 2 authors

Lin CD, Chu W-C (2013) Physics. Controlling atomic line shapes. Science 340:694–695

A journal article with 3 authors

Hong J-W, Hendrix DA, Levine MS (2008) Shadow enhancers as a source of evolutionary novelty. Science 321:1314

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Baena-González E, Rolland F, Thevelein JM, Sheen J (2007) A central integrator of transcription networks in plant stress and energy signalling. Nature 448:938–942

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yakir B (2013) Extremes in Random Fields: A Theory and its Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Stavrakakis I, Smirnov M (eds) (2006) Autonomic Communication: Second International IFIP Workshop, WAC 2005, Athens, Greece, October 2-5, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Krithika R, Narayanaswamy NS (2012) Generalized Above Guarantee Vertex Cover and r-Partization. In: Rahman MS, Nakano S-I (eds) WALCOM: Algorithms and Computation: 6th International Workshop, WALCOM 2012, Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 15-17, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 17–27

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 Biophysical Economics and Resource Quality.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Purps The Penguin Gets A New 3D-Printed Boot To Help With Her Injury. In: IFLScience. 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 (2005) Air Traffic Operations: The Federal Aviation Administration Needs to Address Major Air Traffic Operating Cost Control Changes. 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

Coggin LL (2014) Creating discourses of possibility: Storying between the real and the imagined to negotiate rural lives in two elementary classrooms. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) From the Land of the Moon. New York Times C8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Murphy 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Murphy 2013; Lin and Chu 2013).

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

Two authors: (Lin and Chu 2013)
Three or more authors: (Baena-González et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biophysical Economics and Resource Quality
Abbreviation	Biophys. Econ. Resour. Qual.
ISSN (print)	2366-0112
ISSN (online)	2366-0120
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