How to format your references using the BioResources citation style

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

Ross, F. M. (2015). “Opportunities and challenges in liquid cell electron microscopy,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6267), aaa9886.

A journal article with 2 authors

Law, J. A., and Jacobsen, S. E. (2009). “Molecular biology. Dynamic DNA methylation,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5921), 1568–1569.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lund, D. C., Lynch-Stieglitz, J., and Curry, W. B. (2006). “Gulf Stream density structure and transport during the past millennium,” Nature, 444(7119), 601–604.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cho, S. M., Kim, H. V., Lee, S., Kim, H. Y., Kim, W., Kim, T. S., Kim, D. J., and Kim, Y. (2014). “Correlations of amyloid-β concentrations between CSF and plasma in acute Alzheimer mouse model,” Scientific reports, 4, 6777.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mainardi, R. L. (2011). Harnessing the Power of Continuous Auditing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Yamanouchi, K., Cundiff, S., Vivie-Riedle, R. de, Kuwata-Gonokami, M., and DiMauro, L. (Eds.). (2015). Ultrafast Phenomena XIX: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference, Okinawa Convention Center, Okinawa, Japan, July 7-11, 2014, Springer Proceedings in Physics, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Feil, B., and Abonyi, J. (2007). “Geodesic Distance Based Fuzzy Clustering,” in: Soft Computing in Industrial Applications: Recent Trends, Advances in Soft Computing, A. Saad, K. Dahal, M. Sarfraz, and R. Roy, eds., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 50–59.

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.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015). “First New Antibiotic In 30 Years Could Prove Crucial In Fight Against Superbugs,” IFLScience, IFLScience, <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/resistance-proof-antibiotic-we-ve-been-waiting/> (Oct. 30, 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. (1989). ADP Budget: Potential Reductions to Army Automation Initiatives, 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

Enriquez, M. (2010). “Music therapy to hospice patients of Visiting Nurse Association of Inland Counties: A grant proposal,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Pilon, M. (2014). “Baton in This Race Is the Conductor’s,” New York Times, B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ross 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Law and Jacobsen 2009; Ross 2015).

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

Two authors: (Law and Jacobsen 2009)
Three or more authors: (Cho et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	BioResources
Abbreviation	Bioresources
ISSN (print)	1930-2126
Scope	Bioengineering Environmental Engineering Waste Management and Disposal