How to format your references using the Periodicum Biologorum citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Periodicum Biologorum. 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

DUPAS P 2014 Getting essential health products to their end users: subsidize, but how much? Science 345(6202): 1279–1281

A journal article with 2 authors

ANDERSSON C and READ D 2014 Group size and cultural complexity. Nature 511(7507): E1

A journal article with 3 authors

CARPORZEN L, GILDER S A, and HART R J 2005 Palaeomagnetism of the Vredefort meteorite crater and implications for craters on Mars. Nature 435(7039): 198–201

A journal article with 4 or more authors

WU L, LI S, HE W, TENG D, WANG K, and YE C 2014 Automatic release of silicon nanowire arrays with a high integrity for flexible electronic devices. Sci Rep 4: 3940

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

CURIOSO A, BRADFORD R, and GALBRAITH P 2010 Expert PHP and MySQL®, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA

An edited book

RAU P L P, Ed, 2014 Cross-Cultural Design: 6th International Conference, CCD 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

SHAIKH S H, SAEED K, and CHAKI N 2014 Moving Object Detection: A New Approach, In: Saeed K and Chaki N (eds) Moving Object Detection Using Background Subtraction, Springer International Publishing, Cham, p 25

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 Periodicum Biologorum.

Blog post

O`CALLAGHAN J This Star Is Shooting Super-Heated Blobs Of Plasma Twice The Size Of Mars Into Space, WEB: https://www.iflscience.com/space/this-star-is-shooting-superheated-blobs-of-plasma-twice-the-size-of-mars-into-space/

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 1994 Health, Education, Employment, and Income Security Reports, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

CARMAN S B (2013), Leadership style and church attendance: An ex post facto study of Churches of Christ in Texas

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

SCHWIRTZ M, STEWART N, and BAKER A L (2017), As Police Seek a Motive, a Killer’s Sister Offers Her Perspective

In-text citations

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

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	Periodicum Biologorum
Abbreviation	Period. Biol.
ISSN (print)	0031-5362
ISSN (online)	1849-0964
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Medicine