How to format your references using the Bioresource Technology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bioresource Technology Reports. 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

Roberts, J.W., 2010. Molecular biology. Syntheses that stay together. Science 328, 436–437.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mjolsness, E., DeCoste, D., 2001. Machine learning for science: state of the art and future prospects. Science 293, 2051–2055.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dean, R., Bonsall, M.B., Pizzari, T., 2007. Evolution. Aging and sexual conflict. Science 316, 383–384.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Staller, P., Sulitkova, J., Lisztwan, J., Moch, H., Oakeley, E.J., Krek, W., 2003. Chemokine receptor CXCR4 downregulated by von Hippel-Lindau tumour suppressor pVHL. Nature 425, 307–311.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khan, M.M., Islam, M.R., 2012. Zero Waste Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Koh, J.H.L., 2015. Design Thinking for Education: Conceptions and Applications in Teaching and Learning. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Yamaguchi, H., Takahara, H., 2010. High-Speed Data Transmission Technology for the NEC SX-9, in: Resch, M., Benkert, K., Wang, X., Galle, M., Bez, W., Kobayashi, H., Roller, S. (Eds.), High Performance Computing on Vector Systems 2010. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 63–71.

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 Reports.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. Measles Has Been Officially Wiped Out Across The Americas [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/measles-officially-wiped-out-americas/ (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, 1976. Ways To Improve Management of Federally Funded Computerized Models (No. LCD-75-111). 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

McGaughey, K.M., 2017. Textural juxtaposition: Representing the natural and the human in Elements (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Goodman, P.S., 2017. As U.S. Raises Walls on Trade, Allies Move On. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Roberts, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Mjolsness and DeCoste, 2001; Roberts, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Mjolsness and DeCoste, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Staller et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bioresource Technology Reports
ISSN (print)	2589-014X
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