How to format your references using the Biotechnology Advances citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biotechnology Advances. 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	Download the output style file
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

Habib, S., 2001. Quantum physics. No mere anarchy. Science 293, 221–223.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, R., Lal, R., 2014. Synthetic apatite nanoparticles as a phosphorus fertilizer for soybean (Glycine max). Sci. Rep. 4, 5686.

A journal article with 3 authors

Frederickson, M.E., Greene, M.J., Gordon, D.M., 2005. Ecology: “Devil’s gardens” bedevilled by ants. Nature 437, 495–496.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Corma, A., Nemeth, L.T., Renz, M., Valencia, S., 2001. Sn-zeolite beta as a heterogeneous chemoselective catalyst for Baeyer-Villiger oxidations. Nature 412, 423–425.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Das, J.C., 2017. Understanding Symmetrical Components for Power System Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Reif, K. (Ed.), 2014. Brakes, Brake Control and Driver Assistance Systems: Function, Regulation and Components, Bosch Professional Automotive Information. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden.

A chapter in an edited book

Mason, H.D., Dilaver, N., Rice, S., 2014. Ovarian Dysfunction in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, in: Pal, L. (Ed.), Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Current and Emerging Concepts. Springer, New York, NY, 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 Biotechnology Advances.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Study Concludes Autism Can Be Largely Explained By Genetics [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/study-concludes-autism-can-be-largely-explained-genetics/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1988. Airspace Use: Status of Proposals To Expand Special Use Airspace in North Carolina (No. RCED-88-133FS). 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

Peterson, G.G., 2013. Long-Term Effects of Care Management on Mortality, Hospitalizations, and Medicare Costs Among Chronically-Ill Medicare Beneficiaries (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

White, M.J.O., 2016. Don’t Slap Cuffs on the S.E.C. New York Times A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Habib, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Habib, 2001; Liu and Lal, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Liu and Lal, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Corma et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biotechnology Advances
Abbreviation	Biotechnol. Adv.
ISSN (print)	0734-9750
Scope	Biotechnology