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

Kauer, J.S., 2002. On the scents of smell in the salamander. Nature 417, 336–342.

A journal article with 2 authors

McLaughlin, S., Murray, D., 2005. Plasma membrane phosphoinositide organization by protein electrostatics. Nature 438, 605–611.

A journal article with 3 authors

Riolo, R.L., Cohen, M.D., Axelrod, R., 2001. Evolution of cooperation without reciprocity. Nature 414, 441–443.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hu, C., Ahmed, M., Melia, T.J., Söllner, T.H., Mayer, T., Rothman, J.E., 2003. Fusion of cells by flipped SNAREs. Science 300, 1745–1749.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Straus, S.E., Sackett, D.L., 2013. Mentorship in Academic Medicine. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Shih, H., 2013. English Writings of Hu Shih: Literature and Society (Volume 1), China Academic Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Mescher, M.F., Curtsinger, J.M., Jenkins, M., 2006. Adjuvants and the Initiation of T-Cell Responses, in: Hackett, C.J., Harn, D.A. (Eds.), Vaccine Adjuvants: Immunological and Clinical Principles, Infectious Disease. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 49–67.

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., 2014. Planck Reveals Most Detailed Map Yet Of The Milky Way’s Magnetic Field [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/planck-reveals-most-detailed-map-yet-milky-ways-magnetic-field/ (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, 2013. Public Transit: Transit Agencies’ Use of Contracting to Provide Service (No. GAO-13-782). 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

Revzin, N.T., 2010. From selling rags to wearing riches: German Jews’ economic progress in the first half of the nineteenth century (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Sisario, B., 2017. Drake and Ed Sheeran Top the Chart, Again. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kauer, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kauer, 2002; McLaughlin and Murray, 2005).

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

Two authors: (McLaughlin and Murray, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Hu et al., 2003)

About the journal

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