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

WYATT T D 2009 Fifty years of pheromones. Nature 457(7227): 262–263

A journal article with 2 authors

SCULLY M O and SVIDZINSKY A A 2010 Physics. The Lamb shift--yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Science 328(5983): 1239–1241

A journal article with 3 authors

DANDEKAR A A, CHUGANI S, and GREENBERG E P 2012 Bacterial quorum sensing and metabolic incentives to cooperate. Science 338(6104): 264–266

A journal article with 4 or more authors

APAI D, PASCUCCI I, BOUWMAN J, NATTA A, HENNING T, and DULLEMOND C P 2005 The onset of planet formation in brown dwarf disks. Science 310(5749): 834–836

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

TARDU S 2014 Transport and Coherent Structures in Wall Turbulence, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

SADJADI F and JAVIDI B, Eds, 2007 Physics of Automatic Target Recognition, Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

WARTH R J and MILLETT P J 2015 Disorders of the Long Head of the Biceps Tendon, In: Millett P J (ed) Physical Examination of the Shoulder: An Evidence-Based Approach, Springer, New York, NY, p 109

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

CARPINETI A The Stars Of The Omega Nebula Lack Companions, WEB: https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-stars-of-the-omega-nebula-lack-companions/

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 2000 Federal Communications Commission: Installment Payment Financing for Personal Communications Services (PCS) Licensees, 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

FOX R N (2009), Interpreting architecture: A Krauszian approach

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

SASLOW L (2007), Honoring Neighbors Killed in Attacks

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