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

Buetow KH. Cyberinfrastructure: empowering a “third way” in biomedical research. Science. 2005;308(5723):821-824.

A journal article with 2 authors

Verhulst S, Tinbergen JM. Variation in food supply, time of breeding, and energy expenditure in birds. Science. 2001;294(5542):471.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ackerman JM, Nocera CC, Bargh JA. Incidental haptic sensations influence social judgments and decisions. Science. 2010;328(5986):1712-1715.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Buckley MJ, Mansouri FA, Hoda H, Mahboubi M, Browning PGF, Kwok SC, Phillips A, Tanaka K. Dissociable components of rule-guided behavior depend on distinct medial and prefrontal regions. Science. 2009;325(5936):52-58.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne C. Fatigue Damage. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Korte B. Ottimizzazione Combinatoria: Teoria e Algoritmi. (Vygen J, ed.). Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Freudenburg WR, Gramling R, Laska S, Erikson KT. A “Helpful Explosion.” In: Gramling R, Laska S, Erikson KT, eds. Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics; 2012:67-89.

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

Fang J. Methane-Based Life Forms Could Exist On Titan. IFLScience.

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. Space Station: NASA Efforts To Establish a Design-To-Life-Cycle Cost Process. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bao J. Design Enhancements in Repetitive and Interative Learning Control. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University; 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

Widdicombe B. Diamonds (and Other Gems) That Are Forever. New York Times. October 25, 2016:D10.

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