How to format your references using the BioTechnologia citation style

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

Kühlbrandt W. 2014. Biochemistry. The resolution revolution. Science. 343(6178):1443–1444.

A journal article with 2 authors

Elena SF, Sanjuán R. 2003. Evolution. Climb every mountain? Science. 302(5653):2074–2075.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kürner J, Frangakis AS, Baumeister W. 2005. Cryo-electron tomography reveals the cytoskeletal structure of Spiroplasma melliferum. Science. 307(5708):436–438.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Djamei A, Schipper K, Rabe F, Ghosh A, Vincon V, Kahnt J, Osorio S, Tohge T, Fernie AR, Feussner I, et al. 2011. Metabolic priming by a secreted fungal effector. Nature. 478(7369):395–398.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rodriguez J, Bonne D. 2015. Stereoselective Multiple Bond-Forming Transformations in Organic Synthesis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vovk V, Papadopoulos H, Gammerman A, editors. 2015. Measures of Complexity: Festschrift for Alexey Chervonenkis. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Pacyna J. 2011. Environmental Emissions of Selected Persistent Organic Pollutants. In: Quante M, Ebinghaus R, Flöser G, editors. Persistent Pollution – Past, Present and Future: School of Environmental Research - Organized by Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p. 49–56.

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 BioTechnologia.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014 Oct 13. Rare Footage Captures A Sleepy Whale Waking Up From A Nap. IFLScience.

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. 2007. No Child Left Behind Act: Education Assistance Could Help States Better Measure Progress of Students with Limited English Proficiency. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: GAO-07-646T.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Shellhouse K. 2017. The Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary Deposit in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana.

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

Stewart JB. 2017 Apr 6. Bewitched by the Tesla Story. New York Times.:B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kühlbrandt 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Elena and Sanjuán 2003; Kühlbrandt 2014).

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

Two authors: (Elena and Sanjuán 2003)
Three or more authors: (Djamei et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	BioTechnologia
ISSN (print)	0860-7796
ISSN (online)	2353-9461
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