How to format your references using the Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin (APB). 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

de Waal FBM. A century of getting to know the chimpanzee. Nature 2005;437(7055):56-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Friedrich RW, Laurent G. Dynamic optimization of odor representations by slow temporal patterning of mitral cell activity. Science 2001;291(5505):889-94.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falenty A, Hansen TC, Kuhs WF. Formation and properties of ice XVI obtained by emptying a type sII clathrate hydrate. Nature 2014;516(7530):231-3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lü XT, Dijkstra FA, Kong DL, Wang ZW, Han XG. Plant nitrogen uptake drives responses of productivity to nitrogen and water addition in a grassland. Sci Rep 2014;4:4817.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Louis JP. Control of Synchronous Motors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2011.

An edited book

Patil M. Control Systems for Power Electronics: A Practical Guide. (Rodey P, editor). New Delhi: Springer India; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Klai K, Desel J. Checking Soundness of Business Processes Compositionally Using Symbolic Observation Graphs. In: Giese H, Rosu G, editors Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems: Joint 14th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, FMOODS 2012 and 32nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, FORTE 2012, Stockholm, Sweden, June 13-16, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. P. 67-83.

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 Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin.

Blog post

Hale T. Coco The Cockatiel Can Sing Opera Better Than You Can. IFLScience. Published March 31, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/coco-the-cockatiel-can-sing-opera-better-than-you-can/

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. Business Systems Modernization: Internal Revenue Service’s Fiscal Year 2007 Expenditure Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Robertson E. Transitional services for emancipated foster youth: A grant proposal. Published online 2014.

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

Baker P, Shear MD. Shifting Tone, President Saves Dark Words for a Faith’s Fringe. New York Times. May 21, 2017:A1.

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	Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin
ISSN (print)	2228-5881
ISSN (online)	2251-7308
Scope