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

Taylor JP (2014) Neurodegenerative diseases: G-quadruplex poses quadruple threat. Nature 507:175–177

A journal article with 2 authors

Campbell CS, Desai A (2013) Tension sensing by Aurora B kinase is independent of survivin-based centromere localization. Nature 497:118–121

A journal article with 3 authors

Altewischer E, van Exter MP, Woerdman JP (2002) Plasmon-assisted transmission of entangled photons. Nature 418:304–306

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Xie X, Zhou Y, Bi H, et al (2013) Large-range control of the microstructures and properties of three-dimensional porous graphene. Sci Rep 3:2117

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kazemi GA, Lehr JH, Perrochet P (2006) Groundwater Age. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Zajda J, Freeman K, Geo-Jaja M, et al (2005) International Handbook on Globalisation, Education and Policy Research: Global Pedagogies and Policies. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Taneja P, Vellinga T, Ros R (2014) Role of Flexibility in Sustainable Port Development. In: Gheorghe AV, Masera M, Katina PF (eds) Infranomics: Sustainability, Engineering Design and Governance. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 41–53

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 (2015) Environmental Protection Agency To Get Tough On Emissions From US Airliners. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/environmental-protection-agency-get-tough-emissions-us-airliners/. 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 (1994) Advance Sheets: Volume 73, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States. 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

Ayvaz MD (2017) Generating Creativity in Teams: An Exploratory Case Study. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Herzlinger M (2017) Day Out for Dad and Daughter. 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