How to format your references using the Biotechnology Reports citation style

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

M. Nosonovsky, Materials science: slippery when wetted, Nature 477 (2011) 412–413.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.D. Gluckman, M.A. Hanson, Living with the past: evolution, development, and patterns of disease, Science 305 (2004) 1733–1736.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Ye, H.H. Meyer, T.A. Rapoport, The AAA ATPase Cdc48/p97 and its partners transport proteins from the ER into the cytosol, Nature 414 (2001) 652–656.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. De Wilde, F. Formanek, R. Carminati, B. Gralak, P.-A. Lemoine, K. Joulain, J.-P. Mulet, Y. Chen, J.-J. Greffet, Thermal radiation scanning tunnelling microscopy, Nature 444 (2006) 740–743.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

V.O. Safonov, Using Aspect-Oriented Programming for Trustworthy Software Development, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

A. Korkin, F. Rosei, eds., Nanoelectronics and Photonics: From Atoms to Materials, Devices, and Architectures, Springer, New York, NY, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Bose, R. Murray, Numerical Approximation of Conditionally Invariant Measures via Maximum Entropy, in: W. Bahsoun, C. Bose, G. Froyland (Eds.), Ergodic Theory, Open Dynamics, and Coherent Structures, Springer, New York, NY, 2014: pp. 81–104.

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 Reports.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Scientists Shocked To Discover Eukaryote With NO Mitochondria, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-eukaryote-found-lack-mitochondria/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, [Federal Policies and Practices for Acquiring Information Technology Can Be Improved], U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1984.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.A. Kramer, Accurate Localization Given Uncertain Sensors, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 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]

J. Wagner, Baseball; Mets Face Pitching Decisions, New York Times (2017) B12.

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 Reports
Abbreviation	Biotechnol. Rep. (Amst.)
ISSN (print)	2215-017X
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