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

McKnight, S.L., 2010. On getting there from here. Science 330, 1338–1339.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hall, A., Stouffer, R.J., 2001. An abrupt climate event in a coupled ocean-atmosphere simulation without external forcing. Nature 409, 171–174.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shams, L., Kamitani, Y., Shimojo, S., 2000. Illusions. What you see is what you hear. Nature 408, 788.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bäurle, I., Smith, L., Baulcombe, D.C., Dean, C., 2007. Widespread role for the flowering-time regulators FCA and FPA in RNA-mediated chromatin silencing. Science 318, 109–112.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lieberman, N.P., 2012. Troubleshooting Vacuum Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Roth-Berghofer, T.R., Göker, M.H., Güvenir, H.A. (Eds.), 2006. Advances in Case-Based Reasoning: 8th European Conference, ECCBR 2006 Fethiye, Turkey, September 4-7, 2006 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Helbing, D., Treiber, M., Kesting, A., Schönhof, M., 2013. Theoretical vs. Empirical Classification and Prediction of Congested Traffic States, in: Bressan, A., Helbing, D., Klar, A., Zuazua, E. (Eds.), Modelling and Optimisation of Flows on Networks: Cetraro, Italy 2009, Editors: Benedetto Piccoli, Michel Rascle, Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 303–333.

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, D., 2016. Early-Onset Alzheimer’s: Should You Worry? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/earlyonset-alzheimers-should-you-worry/ (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, 2014. Information Technology: Leveraging Best Practices and Reform Initiatives Can Help Agencies Better Manage Investments (No. GAO-14-568T). 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

Levy, M.R., 2009. Visual perception and Gestalt grouping in the landscape: Are Gestalt grouping prinicples reliable indicators of visual preference? (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Smith, M., 2014. A Kansas Town Rallies for a Modest Lifeline: A Local Grocery Store. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McKnight, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hall and Stouffer, 2001; McKnight, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Hall and Stouffer, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Bäurle et al., 2007)

About the journal

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