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. Hoffman S. Save the children. Nature. 2004;430:940–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Cheney RE, Rodriguez OC. Cell biology. A switch to release the motor. Science. 2001;293:1263–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Pham TCT, Kim HS, Yoon KB. Growth of uniformly oriented silica MFI and BEA zeolite films on substrates. Science. 2011;334:1533–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Huh W-K, Falvo JV, Gerke LC, Carroll AS, Howson RW, Weissman JS, et al. Global analysis of protein localization in budding yeast. Nature. 2003;425:686–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lane MJ. The Mission-Driven Venture. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Fridrich J, editor. Information Hiding: 6th International Workshop, IH 2004, Toronto, Canada, May 23-25, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Allo P. Noisy vs. Merely Equivocal Logics. In: Tanaka K, Berto F, Mares E, Paoli F, editors. Paraconsistency: Logic and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 57–79.

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. Evidence of Water in Meteorite Reopens Debate on Ancient Martian Life [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/evidence-water-meteorite-reopens-debate-ancient-martian-life/

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. B-2 Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Jul. Report No.: NSIAD-93-253R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Graeter CJ. Longitudinal Study of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Subjects in the American Clinical Trial of Enzyme Potentiated Desensitization [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2012.

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. Whiteside K. Rare Double for a Noted Owner. New York Times. 2017 Feb 14;B7.

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