How to format your references using the Bioresource Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bioresource Technology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Smith, A.B., 2003. Paleontology. Making the best of a patchy fossil record. Science 301, 321–322.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brambila, D.S., Fratalocchi, A., 2013. Nonlinearly-enhanced energy transport in many dimensional quantum chaos. Sci. Rep. 3, 2359.

A journal article with 3 authors

Navarrete, A., van Schaik, C.P., Isler, K., 2011. Energetics and the evolution of human brain size. Nature 480, 91–93.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Balili, R., Hartwell, V., Snoke, D., Pfeiffer, L., West, K., 2007. Bose-Einstein condensation of microcavity polaritons in a trap. Science 316, 1007–1010.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gray, R., 2011. A History of American Literature. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Sobh, T. (Ed.), 2008. Advances in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Biscari, P., Ruggeri, T., Saccomandi, G., Vianello, M., 2014. Sistemi vincolati, in: Ruggeri, T., Saccomandi, G., Vianello, M. (Eds.), Meccanica Razionale, UNITEXT. Springer, Milano, pp. 47–81.

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 Bioresource Technology.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2016. How Slime Molds Make Decisions [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-slime-molds-make-decisions/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2010. Charter Schools: Education Could Do More to Assist Charter Schools with Applying for Discretionary Grants (No. GAO-11-89). 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

Geiselman, C.K., 2010. Diet and reproduction of sympatric nectar-feeding bat species (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in French Guiana (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

McKINLEY, J.C., Jr, 2017. Plea Deal For Woman In Spitzer Case. New York Times A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Brambila and Fratalocchi, 2013; Smith, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Brambila and Fratalocchi, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Balili et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bioresource Technology
Abbreviation	Bioresour. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0960-8524
Scope	Bioengineering Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Environmental Engineering Waste Management and Disposal General Medicine