How to format your references using the Biotechnology Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biotechnology Journal (BJT). 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

1. Zakamska, N. L. (2010). H(2) emission arises outside photodissociation regions in ultraluminous infrared galaxies. Nature, 465(7294), 60–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rauch, W., & Kleidorfer, M. (2014). Water treatment. Replace contamination, not the pipes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6198), 734–735.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Zhou, J., Thompson, B., & Hess, R. F. (2013). A new form of rapid binocular plasticity in adult with amblyopia. Scientific Reports, 3, 2638.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

1. Wilhelm, B. T., Marguerat, S., Watt, S., Schubert, F., Wood, V., Goodhead, I., Penkett, C. J., Rogers, J., & Bähler, J. (2008). Dynamic repertoire of a eukaryotic transcriptome surveyed at single-nucleotide resolution. Nature, 453(7199), 1239–1243.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lalena, J. N., & Cleary, D. A. (2005). Principles of Inorganic Materials Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

1. Kamel, M., & Campilho, A. (Eds.). (2015). Image Analysis and Recognition: 12th International Conference, ICIAR 2015, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, July 22-24, 2015, Proceedings (Vol. 9164). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Alexeev, V. (2015). Matroid Polytopes and Tilings. In G. Bini, M. Lahoz, E. Macrí, & P. Stellari (Eds.), Moduli of Weighted Hyperplane Arrangements (pp. 59–74). 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 Journal.

Blog post

1. Andrew, E. (2015, August 24). One Last Look At Saturn’s Moon Dione. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/one-last-look-saturns-moon-dione/

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. (1987). Federal Aviation Administration’s Acquisition of the Advanced Automation System (T-IMTEC-87-6). 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

1. Shakya, M. (2017). Planter Boxes and Rain Gardens for Urban Stormwater Management: Performance of Extended Field Application [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

1. Gustines, G. G. (2015, October 30). Murphy Anderson, 89, Longtime DC Comics Artist. New York Times, B10.

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 Journal
ISSN (print)	1860-6768
ISSN (online)	1860-7314
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