How to format your references using the Biotechnology Progress citation style

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

Chien KR. Genomic circuits and the integrative biology of cardiac diseases. Nature. 2000;407(6801):227-232.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jiang JH, John S. Photonic architectures for equilibrium high-temperature Bose-Einstein condensation in dichalcogenide monolayers. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7432.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cotton CH, Flint J, Campbell TG. Is there an association between NPY and neuroticism? Nature. 2009;458(7238):E6; discussion E7.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Högbom M, Stenmark P, Voevodskaya N, McClarty G, Gräslund A, Nordlund P. The radical site in chlamydial ribonucleotide reductase defines a new R2 subclass. Science. 2004;305(5681):245-248.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gatarek D, Bachert P, Maksymiuk R. The LIBOR Market Model in Practice. John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2007.

An edited book

Strycker LD, ed. ECUMICT 2014: Proceedings of the European Conference on the Use of Modern Information and Communication Technologies, Gent, March 2014. Vol 302. Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Giorgi A. Professional Marginalization in Psychology: Choice or Destiny? In: Mos LP, ed. History of Psychology in Autobiography. Path in Psychology. Springer US; 2009:131-157.

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 Progress.

Blog post

Davis J. Chimps Are Capable Of Cooking Food. IFLScience. Published June 3, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chimps-have-mental-ability-cook-food/

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. Voluntary Consensus Standards: Agencies’ Compliance With the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Arendt KR. Symbiosis Establishment and Ecological Effects of Endohyphal Bacteria on Foliar Fungi. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona; 2015.

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

Kishkovsky S. Minarets and Onion Domes. New York Times. September 28, 2008:TR4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Progress
Abbreviation	Biotechnol. Prog.
ISSN (print)	8756-7938
ISSN (online)	1520-6033
Scope	Biotechnology