How to format your references using the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 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

[1]

P.M. Pryciak, Systems biology. Customized signaling circuits, Science 319 (2008) 1489–1490.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Wang, D.J. Anderson, Identification of an aggression-promoting pheromone and its receptor neurons in Drosophila, Nature 463 (2010) 227–231.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Merilä, L.E. Kruuk, B.C. Sheldon, Cryptic evolution in a wild bird population, Nature 412 (2001) 76–79.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G.-H. Lee, S.J. Kwon, K.-S. Park, J.-G. Kang, J.-G. Park, S. Lee, J.-C. Kim, H.-W. Shim, D.-W. Kim, Germanium microflower-on-nanostem as a high-performance lithium ion battery electrode, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6883.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Y. Pan, J. Wang, M. Li, Algorithmic and Artificial Intelligence Methods for Protein Bioinformatics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

N. Siddharthan, K. Narayanan, eds., Human Capital and Development: The Indian Experience, 2nd ed. 2013, Springer India, New Delhi, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Selway, N. Culhane, J. Labuszewski, J. McGonegal, W. O’Brien, Intermarket Competition: Listing Decisions, in: A. Colaninno, J.A. Byrne, R.A. Schwartz (Eds.), Competition in a Consolidating Environment, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2008: pp. 37–52.

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 Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Mushroom Used in Chinese Medicine Could Slow Weight Gain, Study Reports, IFLScience (2015).

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, Older Driver Safety: Knowledge Sharing Should Help States Prepare for Increase in Older Driver Population, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.A. Tillman, Constructing the Concept of Time: Roles of Perception, Language, and Culture, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 2017.

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]

W.K. Rashbaum, J.C. McKINLEY Jr, 106 Are Charged in Lengthy Fraud Over Disabilities, New York Times (2014) A1.

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	Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis
Abbreviation	J. Pharm. Biomed. Anal.
ISSN (print)	0731-7085
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Spectroscopy Drug Discovery Pharmaceutical Science