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

Carmichael M. Drug safety: double jeopardy. Nature, 498, S14-5 (2013).

A journal article with 2 authors

Srinivasan M, Ruina A. Computer optimization of a minimal biped model discovers walking and running. Nature, 439, 72–75 (2006).

A journal article with 3 authors

Bejan A, Ziaei S, Lorente S. Evolution: why all plumes and jets evolve to round cross sections. Sci. Rep., 4, 4730 (2014).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stone JO, Balco GA, Sugden DE, Caffee MW, Sass LC 3rd, Cowdery SG, Siddoway C. Holocene deglaciation of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica. Science, 299, 99–102 (2003).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vitetta GM, Taylor DP, Colavolpe G, Pancaldi F, Martin PA. Wireless Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, (2013).

An edited book

Benesty J. Speech Enhancement in the STFT Domain. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, (2012).

A chapter in an edited book

Bouleau N, Denis L. The Lent Particle Formula. Dirichlet Forms Methods for Poisson Point Measures and Lévy Processes: With Emphasis on the Creation-Annihilation Techniques. (Denis Laurent ed.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp.83–105 (2015).

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

Andrew E. “New Species Of Peacock Spider Described”.: <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/another-magnificent-species-peacock-spider-described/>, 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. Analysis of “Florida’s Fair Share”, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Panteleyeva NB. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 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

Medellín RA, Melnick DJ, Pearl MC. Protect Our Bats, 2014.

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

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