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

Keeling, R.F., 2008. Atmospheric science. Recording Earth’s vital signs. Science 319, 1771–1772.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sauvageau, G., Humphries, R.K., 2010. Medicine. The blood stem cell Holy Grail? Science 329, 1291–1292.

A journal article with 3 authors

Villar, G., Graham, A.D., Bayley, H., 2013. A tissue-like printed material. Science 340, 48–52.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ozawa, S., Murakami, M., Kaidzu, M., Tada, T., Sagiya, T., Hatanaka, Y., Yarai, H., Nishimura, T., 2002. Detection and monitoring of ongoing aseismic slip in the Tokai region, central Japan. Science 298, 1009–1012.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goddard Blythe, S., 2012. Assessing Neuromotor Readiness for Learning. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Grove, A., Berg, G.A. (Eds.), 2014. Social Business: Theory, Practice, and Critical Perspectives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Balamohan, B., Flocchini, P., Miri, A., Santoro, N., 2010. Time Optimal Algorithms for Black Hole Search in Rings, in: Wu, W., Daescu, O. (Eds.), Combinatorial Optimization and Applications: 4th International Conference, COCOA 2010, Kailua-Kona, HI, USA, December 18-20, 2010, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 58–71.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Genetic Secrets Of Longevity Discovered [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/genetic-secrets-longevity-discovered/ (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, 1990. Close Air Support: Airborne Controllers in High-Threat Areas May Not Be Needed (No. NSIAD-90-116). 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

Bennett, M.A., 2017. The Underrepresentation of Registered Nurses in Hospital CEO Positions: A Grounded Theory Study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Belson, K., Pilon, M., 2013. Technology Firm From India Will Be New York Marathon Title Sponsor. New York Times B17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Keeling, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Keeling, 2008; Sauvageau and Humphries, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Sauvageau and Humphries, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Ozawa et al., 2002)

About the journal

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