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

Guillén N. 2014. Infection biology: Nibbled to death. Nature 508:462–463.

A journal article with 2 authors

Campins H, Comfort CM. 2014. Solar system: Evaporating asteroid. Nature 505:487–488.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ting JPY, Duncan JA, Lei Y. 2010. How the noninflammasome NLRs function in the innate immune system. Science 327:286–290.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shimura H, Schlossmacher MG, Hattori N, Frosch MP, Trockenbacher A, Schneider R, Mizuno Y, Kosik KS, Selkoe DJ. 2001. Ubiquitination of a new form of alpha-synuclein by parkin from human brain: implications for Parkinson’s disease. Science 293:263–269.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ezra D, Collie B, Smith MX. 2009. The Retirement Plan Solution. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Basten T, Hamberg R, Reckers F, Verriet J eds. 2013. Model-Based Design of Adaptive Embedded Systems. New York, NY: Springer. Vol. 22 XIV, 306 p p. Embedded Systems.

A chapter in an edited book

Licato J, Bringsjord S, Govindarajulu NS. 2015. How Models of Creativity and Analogy Need to Answer the Tailorability Concern. In: Besold, TR, Schorlemmer, M, Smaill, A, editors. Computational Creativity Research: Towards Creative Machines. Paris: Atlantis Press. Atlantis Thinking Machines, pp. 93–107.

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

Andrew E. 2015. The Martian: A Perfect Balance Of Scientific Accuracy And Gripping Fiction. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/martian-perfect-balance-scientific-accuracy-and-gripping-fiction/.

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. 1998. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Business Continuity and Contingency Planning (Exposure Draft) (Superseded by AIMD-10.1.19). 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

Urquidi AJ. 2015. Condolences to all of you: Late eulogies of a half-complacent birthday boy. 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

Brantley B. 2016. The Goal Is to Win, and to Be Heard. New York Times, December 6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guillén, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Campins and Comfort, 2014; Guillén, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Campins and Comfort, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Shimura et al., 2001)

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