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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Aguzzi, A. (2005). Cell biology. Prion toxicity: all sail and no anchor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5727), 1420–1421.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ohman, M. D., & Hirche, H. J. (2001). Density-dependent mortality in an oceanic copepod population. Nature, 412(6847), 638–641.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cobaleda, C., Jochum, W., & Busslinger, M. (2007). Conversion of mature B cells into T cells by dedifferentiation to uncommitted progenitors. Nature, 449(7161), 473–477.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jones, T., Ehardt, C. L., Butynski, T. M., Davenport, T. R. B., Mpunga, N. E., Machaga, S. J., & De Luca, D. W. (2005). The highland mangabey Lophocebus kipunji: a new species of African monkey. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5725), 1161–1164.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Donald, H., & Robert D., G. (2006). Longitudinal Data Analysis: Hedeker/Longitudinal. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Orcutt, J. (Ed.). (2013). Earth System Monitoring: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bowers, A., & Kalton, N. J. (2014). Consequences of Convexity. In N. J. Kalton (Ed.), An Introductory Course in Functional Analysis (pp. 83–127). Springer.

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 Genetic Engineering Reviews.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, February 26). Machines Master Classic Video Games Without Being Told The Rules. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/machines-master-classic-video-games-without-being-told-rules/

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. (1997). EPA: Control of Emissions of Air Pollution From Highway Heavy-Duty Engines (OGC-98-9). 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

Grether, S. (2012). All You Need is Love? An Examination of Interracial Divorce [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

Hollander, S. (2000, February 6). Kaukenas’s Magical Night Means Romp for Seton Hall. New York Times, 84.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aguzzi, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Aguzzi, 2005; Ohman & Hirche, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Ohman & Hirche, 2001)
Three authors: (Cobaleda et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Jones et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews
Abbreviation	Biotechnol. Genet. Eng. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0264-8725
ISSN (online)	2046-5556
Scope	Biotechnology Molecular Biology Bioengineering