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

Whorton M (2014) Structural biology: Calcium-activated proteins visualized. Nature 516:176–178

A journal article with 2 authors

Levitan DR, Ferrell DL (2006) Selection on gamete recognition proteins depends on sex, density, and genotype frequency. Science 312:267–269

A journal article with 3 authors

Chih B, Engelman H, Scheiffele P (2005) Control of excitatory and inhibitory synapse formation by neuroligins. Science 307:1324–1328

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sam M, Vora S, Malnic B, et al (2001) Neuropharmacology. Odorants may arouse instinctive behaviours. Nature 412:142

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yukihara EG, McKeever SWS (2011) Optically Stimulated Luminescence. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Borja RI (ed) (2011) Multiscale and Multiphysics Processes in Geomechanics: Resultsof the Workshop on Multiscale and Multiphysics Processes in Geomechanics, Stanford, June 23–25, 2010. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Baer PC, Luttmann W (2014) Adipose-derived Stromal/Stem Cells and Their Differentiation Potential into the Endothelial Lineage. In: Hescheler J, Hofer E (eds) Adult and Pluripotent Stem Cells: Potential for Regenerative Medicine of the Cardiovascular System. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 53–70

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 D (2015) Here’s What Caffeine Does To Your Brain. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/what-caffeine-does-brain/. 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 (1977) Navigation Systems. 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

Young AJ (2017) An Examination of Cultures of Innovation within Esoteric Technology Provider: A Look into Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE). Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Paulson M (2017) Patinkin Bows Out Of ‘Comet.’ New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Whorton 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Levitan and Ferrell 2006; Whorton 2014).

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

Two authors: (Levitan and Ferrell 2006)
Three or more authors: (Sam et al. 2001)

About the journal

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

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