How to format your references using the Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering (BBE). 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

Cottrell, G.W. (2006) Computer science. New life for neural networks. Science 313: 454–455.

A journal article with 2 authors

Finke, D.L., and R.F. Denno (2004) Predator diversity dampens trophic cascades. Nature 429: 407–410.

A journal article with 3 authors

Poinar, H., M. Kuch, and S. Pääbo (2001) Molecular analyses of oral polio vaccine samples. Science 292: 743–744.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Iverson, N.R., D. Cohen, T.S. Hooyer, U.H. Fischer, M. Jackson, P.L. Moore, G. Lappegard, and J. Kohler (2003) Effects of basal debris on glacier flow. Science 301: 81–84.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schorn, C., and B. Taylor (2004) NMR Spectroscopy: Data Acquisition. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Jackson, M., D. Nelson, and S. Stirk, eds. (2005) Database: Enterprise, Skills and Innovation: 22nd British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 22, Sunderland, UK, July 5-7, 2005. Proceedings. 3567, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahonen, P., P. Alahuhta, B. Daskala, S. Delaitre, P.D. Hert, R. Lindner, I. Maghiros, A. Moscibroda, W. Schreurs, and M. Verlinden (2010) Threats and vulnerabilities. pp. 143–178. In: Alahuhta, P., Daskala, B., Delaitre, S., Hert, P. D., Lindner, R., Maghiros, I., Moscibroda, A., Schreurs, W., Verlinden, M., Wright, D., Friedewald, M., Punie, Y., Gutwirth, S., and Vildjiounaite, E. (eds.). Safeguards in a World of Ambient Intelligence. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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 Bioprocess Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017) People Hadn’t Set Foot In This Ancient “Lost City” In The Honduran Jungle For 500 Years — Until Now. IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/people-hadnt-set-foot-in-this-ancient-lost-city-in-the-honduran-jungle-for-500-years-until-now/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-2018].

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 (2010) Federal Student Loan Programs: Opportunities Exist to Improve Audit Requirements and Oversight Procedures. 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

Arab, A.A. (2012) Finite Element Modeling of Pretensioned Concrete Girders: A Methodological Approach with Applications in Large Strands and End Zone Cracking. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University.

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

Dominus, S. (2017) Not Just UsNew York Times, MM34.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering
ISSN (print)	1226-8372
ISSN (online)	1976-3816
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