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

Bréon F-M (2006) Climate. How do aerosols affect cloudiness and climate? Science 313:623–624

A journal article with 2 authors

Ofek G, Diskin R (2014) HIV. Expanding the breadth of an HIV-1 vaccine. Science 346:1290–1291

A journal article with 3 authors

Shembade N, Ma A, Harhaj EW (2010) Inhibition of NF-kappaB signaling by A20 through disruption of ubiquitin enzyme complexes. Science 327:1135–1139

A journal article with 5 or more authors

de Quervain DJ-F, Fischbacher U, Treyer V, et al (2004) The neural basis of altruistic punishment. Science 305:1254–1258

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolf KH, Barnes R (2010) VoIP Emergency Calling. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Peters MA (ed) (2012) Obama and The End of the American Dream: Essays in Political and Economic Philosophy. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Lankin PT, Shon PC (2013) Triad, Yakuza, and Jok-Pok: Asian Gangsters in Cinema. In: Liu J, Hebenton B, Jou S (eds) Handbook of Asian Criminology. Springer, New York, NY, pp 65–82

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

Andrew E (2015) Physicists Plan To Put A Microbe In Two Places At Once. In: IFLScience. 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 (2014) NASA: Assessments of Selected Large-Scale Projects. 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

Kluck MC (2017) You are What You Read: Participation and Emancipation Problematized in Habacuc’s “Exposición #1.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Crow K (2003) Seeking to Preserve the Site Where a Famed Ancestor Traded. New York Times 148

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bréon 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Bréon 2006; Ofek and Diskin 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ofek and Diskin 2014)
Three or more authors: (de Quervain et al. 2004)

About the journal

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