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

Marshall, E. (2008). “Clinical trials and tribulations. Lemons, oranges, and complexity. Introduction,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5899), 209.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hirsh, A. E., and Fraser, H. B. (2001). “Protein dispensability and rate of evolution,” Nature, 411(6841), 1046–1049.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wechsler, T., Newman, S., and West, S. C. (2011). “Aberrant chromosome morphology in human cells defective for Holliday junction resolution,” Nature, 471(7340), 642–646.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Martínez-Hidalgo, P., Galindo-Villardón, P., Trujillo, M. E., Igual, J. M., and Martínez-Molina, E. (2014). “Micromonospora from nitrogen fixing nodules of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). A new promising Plant Probiotic Bacteria,” Scientific reports, 4, 6389.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva, L. S., Simões, R., and Gervásio, H. (2014). Design of Steel Structures, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Mele, F., Ramella, G., Santillo, S., and Ventriglia, F. (Eds.). (2007). Advances in Brain, Vision, and Artificial Intelligence: Second International Symposium, BVAI 2007, Naples, Italy, October 10-12, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ithier, G., Nguyen, F., Collin, E., Boulant, N., Meeson, P. J., Joyez, P., Vion, D., and Estève, D. (2007). “Decoherence of a Quantum Bit Circuit,” in: Quantum Decoherence: Poincaré Seminar 2005, B. Duplantier, J.-M. Raimond, and V. Rivasseau, eds., Birkhäuser, Basel, 125–149.

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

Andrew, E. (2014). “Study Suggests Autism Begins During Pregnancy,” IFLScience, IFLScience, <https://www.iflscience.com/brain/study-suggests-autism-begins-during-pregnancy/> (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. (1985). Institutional Aid Under Title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965, 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

Donihoo, K. (2017). “Best Practices and Strategies Used by Church Leaders to Mitigate and Prevent Burnout Among Church Volunteers,” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Schwartz, J. (2016). “400,” New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marshall 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Hirsh and Fraser 2001; Marshall 2008).

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

Two authors: (Hirsh and Fraser 2001)
Three or more authors: (Martínez-Hidalgo et al. 2014)

About the journal

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