How to format your references using the Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering. 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

Van Duyne RP (2004) Physics. Molecular plasmonics. Science 306:985–986

A journal article with 2 authors

Raine NE, Gill RJ (2015) Ecology: Tasteless pesticides affect bees in the field. Nature 521:38–40

A journal article with 3 authors

Shubin N, Tabin C, Carroll S (2009) Deep homology and the origins of evolutionary novelty. Nature 457:818–823

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lareau LF, Inada M, Green RE, et al (2007) Unproductive splicing of SR genes associated with highly conserved and ultraconserved DNA elements. Nature 446:926–929

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen X, Parini CG, Collins B, et al (2012) Antennas for Global Navigation Satellite Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Jaafar A, Mohamad Ali N, Mohd Noah SA, et al (2014) Information Retrieval Technology: 10th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2014, Kuching, Malaysia, December 3-5, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ieva M, Ziliani C, Gázquez-Abad JC (2015) Memory for Private Label Versus National Brand in Feature Advertising. In: Martínez-López FJ, Gázquez-Abad JC, Sethuraman R (eds) Advances in National Brand and Private Label Marketing: Second International Conference, 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 43–50

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 Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Artificial Sweeteners Associated With Glucose Intolerance. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/artificial-sweeteners-associated-glucose-intolerance/. 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 (2011) Homeland Security: Improvements in Managing Research and Development Could Help Reduce Inefficiencies and Costs. 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

Li L (2012) Internal conflicts through external design: Costuming the contradictions in “The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Oren MB (2017) The Iran Deal Isn’t Worth Saving. New York Times A23

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	Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering
Abbreviation	Bioprocess Biosyst. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1615-7591
ISSN (online)	1615-7605
Scope	Biotechnology Bioengineering General Medicine