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]

M.J. Prather, Atmospheric science. An environmental experiment with H2?, Science 302 (2003) 581–582.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Kind, X. Yuan, Geophysics. Seismic images of the biggest crash on Earth, Science 329 (2010) 1479–1480.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.N. Reznick, M. Mateos, M.S. Springer, Independent origins and rapid evolution of the placenta in the fish genus Poeciliopsis, Science 298 (2002) 1018–1020.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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J.A. Stefater 3rd, I. Lewkowich, S. Rao, G. Mariggi, A.C. Carpenter, A.R. Burr, J. Fan, R. Ajima, J.D. Molkentin, B.O. Williams, M. Wills-Karp, J.W. Pollard, T. Yamaguchi, N. Ferrara, H. Gerhardt, R.A. Lang, Regulation of angiogenesis by a non-canonical Wnt-Flt1 pathway in myeloid cells, Nature 474 (2011) 511–515.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.R. Vacca, Optical Networking Best Practices Handbook, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Y. Yang, M. Ma, eds., Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Green Communications and Networks 2012 (GCN 2012): Volume 4, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

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W. Stenzel, The US Electrical Power Industry-A 2007 Perspective, in: K. Cen, Y. Chi, F. Wang (Eds.), Challenges of Power Engineering and Environment: Proceedings of the International Conference on Power Engineering 2007, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: pp. 26–31.

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

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E. Andrew, The Genetic Blueprint Of An Octopus Reveals Much About This Amazing Creature, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/genetic-blueprint-octopus-reveals-much-about-amazing-creature/ (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, Bilingual Education: Information on Limited English Proficient Students, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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C.P. Brown, Range vs. register: An important distinction in choral repertoire for the adolescent male, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 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

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M. Latimer, How to Get Trump to Withdraw, New York Times (2016) A23.

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