How to format your references using the Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin. 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

Hope TJ. VIROLOGY. Visualizing trans-infection. Science, 350, 511–512 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwab ME, Buchli AD. Drug research: plug the real brain drain. Nature, 483, 267–268 (2012).

A journal article with 3 authors

Hu Z-X, Lan H, Ji W. Role of the dispersion force in modeling the interfacial properties of molecule-metal interfaces: adsorption of thiophene on copper surfaces. Sci. Rep., 4, 5036 (2014).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vernazza P, Binzel RP, Rossi A, Fulchignoni M, Birlan M. Solar wind as the origin of rapid reddening of asteroid surfaces. Nature, 458, 993–995 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Good PI, Hardin JW. Common Errors in Statistics (and How to Avoid Them). John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, (2006).

An edited book

Rocher G. The Definitive Guide to Grails. Second Edition ed., Apress, Berkeley, CA, (2009).

A chapter in an edited book

Das S, Senior BA. Injection and Anesthetic Techniques. Rhinologic and Sleep Apnea Surgical Techniques. (Kountakis Stilanos E , Önerci Metin ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp.41–47 (2007).

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 Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin.

Blog post

Fang J. “Existence of Exotic Hadron Confirmed”.: <https://www.iflscience.com/physics/existence-exotic-hadron-confirmed/>, cited 30 October, 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

Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: An Assessment Guide--Exposure Draft (Superseded by AIMD-10.1.14), U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lurz JP. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2019.

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

Hubbard B, Sengupta S. U.N. Reaches Deal to Oversee Aleppo Evacuations Amid New Obstacles, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference ²⁾.
This sentence cites two references ^2,4).
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
Abbreviation	Biol. Pharm. Bull.
ISSN (print)	0918-6158
ISSN (online)	1347-5215
Scope	General Medicine Pharmaceutical Science Pharmacology