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

Gupta, S. (2000). “A victim of truth,” Nature, 407(6805), 677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhuo, S., and Ni, M. (2014). “Label-free and real-time imaging of dehydration-induced DNA conformational changes in cellular nucleus using second harmonic microscopy,” Scientific reports, 4, 7416.

A journal article with 3 authors

Savaldi-Goldstein, S., Peto, C., and Chory, J. (2007). “The epidermis both drives and restricts plant shoot growth,” Nature, 446(7132), 199–202.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

van Gestel, N., Shi, Z., van Groenigen, K. J., Osenberg, C. W., Andresen, L. C., Dukes, J. S., Hovenden, M. J., Luo, Y., Michelsen, A., Pendall, E., Reich, P. B., Schuur, E. A. G., and Hungate, B. A. (2018). “Predicting soil carbon loss with warming,” Nature, 554(7693), E4–E5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tapiero, C. S. (2010). Risk Finance and Asset Pricing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Voyiadjis, G. Z. (Ed.). (2015). Handbook of Damage Mechanics: Nano to Macro Scale for Materials and Structures, Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Novikov, S. P. (2009). “Four Lectures: Discretization and Integrability. Discrete Spectral Symmetries,” in: Integrability, Lecture Notes in Physics, A. V. Mikhailov, ed., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 119–138.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016). “NASA Spots Giant Hole In The Sun - But What Does That Actually Mean?,” IFLScience, IFLScience, <https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-spots-giant-hole-in-the-sun/> (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. (2012). The Department of Energy’s Office of Science Uses a Multilayered Process for Prioritizing Research, 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

Flores, E. (2010). “An exploratory study on widows’ experiences following the loss of their spouse,” 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

St. John Kelly, E. (1994). “PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD,” New York Times, 1315.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gupta 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gupta 2000; Zhuo and Ni 2014).

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

Two authors: (Zhuo and Ni 2014)
Three or more authors: (van Gestel et al. 2018)

About the journal

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