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

Wilson RK (2012) Retrospective. Elinor Ostrom (1933-2012). Science 337:661

A journal article with 2 authors

D’Souza V, Summers MF (2004) Structural basis for packaging the dimeric genome of Moloney murine leukaemia virus. Nature 431:586–590

A journal article with 3 authors

Robinson IM, Ranjan R, Schwarz TL (2002) Synaptotagmins I and IV promote transmitter release independently of Ca(2+) binding in the C(2)A domain. Nature 418:336–340

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sato K, Aoki K, Watanabe YY, Miller PJO (2013) Neutral buoyancy is optimal to minimize the cost of transport in horizontally swimming seals. Sci Rep 3:2205

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Radcliff PB (2017) Modern Spain. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Kurochkina N (2015) SH Domains: Structure, Mechanisms and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Shao L, Lu J, Shi M (2012) Miscellaneous Analogs. In: Lu J, Shi M (eds) Chemical Transformations of Vinylidenecyclopropanes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 55–67

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

Hale T (2016) 2,000-Year-Old Lump Of Butter Dug Up From An Irish Bog. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/2000yearold-lump-of-butter-dug-up-from-an-irish-bog/. 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 (1986) Guaranteed Student Loans: Guidelines for Reducing Guaranty Agency Reserves. 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

Newsom SM (2012) Love and Creativity: A Shared Dynamic. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Gustines GG (2016) Seeing Him in the Funny Papers. New York Times D7

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