How to format your references using the Biotechnology for Biofuels citation style

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

1. King D. Spending review leaves research in the lurch. Nature. 2010;467:1007.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Tripati A, Elderfield H. Deep-sea temperature and circulation changes at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Science. 2005;308:1894–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Machens CK, Romo R, Brody CD. Flexible control of mutual inhibition: a neural model of two-interval discrimination. Science. 2005;307:1121–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Jordan P, Fromme P, Witt HT, Klukas O, Saenger W, Krauss N. Three-dimensional structure of cyanobacterial photosystem I at 2.5 A resolution. Nature. 2001;411:909–17.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Jones DW. Economic Theory and the Ancient Mediterranean. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

1. Misra S, Woungang I, Chandra Misra S, editors. Guide to Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. London: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lo J-J, Ji N-W, Syu Y-H, You W-J, Chen Y-T. Developing a Digital Game-Based Situated Learning System for Ocean Ecology. In: Pan Z, Cheok AD, Müller W, Rhalibi AE, editors. Transactions on Edutainment I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 51–61.

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 for Biofuels.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. This Father’s Day, Be Grateful Your Dad Is A Human. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. The Cost Effectiveness of an Education Assistance Program (GI Bill) as a Recruiting Incentive Is Unknown. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982 Jan. Report No.: FPCD-82-12.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Enriquez M. Music therapy to hospice patients of Visiting Nurse Association of Inland Counties: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

1. Kelly C. My Other Job, Crazy as It Is, Keeps Me Sane. New York Times. 2009 Feb 15;BU2.

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 for Biofuels
Abbreviation	Biotechnol. Biofuels
ISSN (online)	1754-6834
Scope	Biotechnology General Energy Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology