How to format your references using the Bioresources and Bioprocessing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bioresources and Bioprocessing. 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

Kumar S (2012) Extinction need not be forever. Nature 492:9

A journal article with 2 authors

Koh LP, Wilcove DS (2007) Cashing in palm oil for conservation. Nature 448:993–994

A journal article with 3 authors

Alarousu E, AlSaggaf A, Jabbour GE (2013) Online monitoring of printed electronics by Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography. Sci Rep 3:1562

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Smith NA, Singh SP, Wang MB, et al (2000) Total silencing by intron-spliced hairpin RNAs. Nature 407:319–320

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lundberg U, Cooper CL (2010) The Science of Occupational Health. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Tong VCH (ed) (2014) Geoscience Research and Education: Teaching at Universities. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Leach R (2009) Pneumonia. In: McLuckie A (ed) Respiratory Disease and its Management. Springer, London, pp 51–59

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 Bioresources and Bioprocessing.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Sex Differences In Chimp Tool Use Switch Later In Life. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sex-differences-object-play-among-young-chimpanzees-impact-tool-use-later-life/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1991) ADP Procurement: Better Capacity Planning Needed at Agriculture’s National Finance Center. 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

Wuite J (2006) Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Three East Antarctic Outlet Glaciers and Their Floating Ice Tongues. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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) A Mythic Force of Anger, Raging in Wales. New York Times C6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kumar 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Koh and Wilcove 2007; Kumar 2012).

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

Two authors: (Koh and Wilcove 2007)
Three or more authors: (Smith et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bioresources and Bioprocessing
Abbreviation	Bioresour. Bioprocess.
ISSN (online)	2197-4365
Scope