How to format your references using the Biotechnology and Bioengineering citation style

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

Geim AK. 2009. Graphene: status and prospects. Science 324:1530–1534.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hunt KK, Vorburger SA. 2002. Tech.Sight. Gene therapy. Hurdles and hopes for cancer treatment. Science 297:415–416.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang Z, White PS, Brookhart M. 2010. Ligand exchanges and selective catalytic hydrogenation in molecular single crystals. Nature 465:598–601.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Foukas LC, Claret M, Pearce W, Okkenhaug K, Meek S, Peskett E, Sancho S, Smith AJH, Withers DJ, Vanhaesebroeck B. 2006. Critical role for the p110alpha phosphoinositide-3-OH kinase in growth and metabolic regulation. Nature 441:366–370.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gordon MJ Jr. 2010. Total Quality Process Control for Injection Molding. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hummel KA, Hlavacs H, Gansterer W eds. 2011. Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems. Milestones and Future Challenges: IFIP WG 6.3/7.3 International Workshop, PERFORM 2010, in Honor of Günter Haring on the Occasion of His Emeritus Celebration, Vienna, Austria, October 14-16, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. Vol. 6821 XII, 255 p p. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

A chapter in an edited book

Joarder R, Crundwell N. 2012. Case 4. In: Crundwell, N, editor. Case Studies in Chest Imaging. London: Springer, pp. 13–15.

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 and Bioengineering.

Blog post

Hale T. 2016. Huge Ancient Hidden Monument Found In Petra Using Satellites, Drones, And Google Earth. IFLScience. 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. 1977. The Concorde: Results of a Supersonic Aircraft’s Entry into the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Selby C. 2015. With|out. Doctoral dissertation; Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Villarosa L. 2017. America’s Hidden H.I.V. Epidemic. New York Times, June 6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Geim, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Geim, 2009; Hunt and Vorburger, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Hunt and Vorburger, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Foukas et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Abbreviation	Biotechnol. Bioeng.
ISSN (print)	0006-3592
ISSN (online)	1097-0290
Scope	Biotechnology Bioengineering Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology