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

Telling, G., 2015. Neurodegeneration: Evolved protection against human prions. Nature 522, 423–424.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sigala, N., Logothetis, N.K., 2002. Visual categorization shapes feature selectivity in the primate temporal cortex. Nature 415, 318–320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rouxel, O.J., Bekker, A., Edwards, K.J., 2005. Iron isotope constraints on the Archean and Paleoproterozoic ocean redox state. Science 307, 1088–1091.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sallon, S., Solowey, E., Cohen, Y., Korchinsky, R., Egli, M., Woodhatch, I., Simchoni, O., Kislev, M., 2008. Germination, genetics, and growth of an ancient date seed. Science 320, 1464.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weinberg, S., 2011. Cost-Contained Regulatory Compliance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hattori, H., Kawamura, T., Idé, T., Yokoo, M., Murakami, Y. (Eds.), 2009. New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI 2008 Conference and Workshops, Asahikawa, Japan, June 11-13, 2008, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hummel, G., Stütz, P., 2014. Using Virtual Simulation Environments for Development and Qualification of UAV Perceptive Capabilities: Comparison of Real and Rendered Imagery with MPEG7 Image Descriptors, in: Hodicky, J. (Ed.), Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems: First International Workshop, MESAS 2014, Rome, Italy, May 5-6, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 27–43.

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

Fang, J., 2016. Male Fiddler Crabs Use Vibrations To Lure Females Into Burrows [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/male-fiddler-crabs-use-vibrations-lure-females-burrows/ (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, 2007. Bankruptcy Reform: Value of Credit Counseling Requirement Is Not Clear (No. GAO-07-203). 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

Campos-Doerfler, L., 2017. The Role of Sgs1 and Exo1 in the Maintenance of Genome Stability (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Brantley, B., 2017. Musical Theater Loses A Versatile Voice. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Telling, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Sigala and Logothetis, 2002; Telling, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sigala and Logothetis, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Sallon et al., 2008)

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