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

CHAPMAN T 2004 Proteins on the move. Nature 430(6995): 111

A journal article with 2 authors

WILSON J H and ELLEDGE S J 2002 Cancer. BRCA2 enters the fray. Science 297(5588): 1822–1823

A journal article with 3 authors

HOVENDEN M J, NEWTON P C D, and WILLS K E 2014 Seasonal not annual rainfall determines grassland biomass response to carbon dioxide. Nature 511(7511): 583–586

A journal article with 4 or more authors

KUMAR N, ATTRI P, YADAV D K, CHOI J, CHOI E H, and UHM H S 2014 Induced apoptosis in melanocytes cancer cell and oxidation in biomolecules through deuterium oxide generated from atmospheric pressure non-thermal plasma jet. Sci Rep 4: 7589

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

CENTER FOR CHEMICAL PROCESS SAFETY 1996 Guidelines for Use of Vapor Cloud Dispersion Models, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

HUANG Z 2013 Theory of Parallel Mechanisms, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

AL-JUMAILI M I, RAUHALA V, JONSSON K, KARIM R, and PARIDA A 2014 Aspects of Data Quality in eMaintenance: A Case Study of Process Industry in Northern Europe, In: Lee J, Ni J, Sarangapani J, and Mathew J (eds) Engineering Asset Management 2011: Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management, Springer, London, p 41

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

ANDREW E Watch A Katana-Wielding Robot Battle A Human Samurai Sword Master, WEB: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/watch-katana-wielding-robot-battle-human-samurai-sword-master/

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 2001 FTS2001: Transition Challenges Jeopardize Program Goals, 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

KNUDSEN E (2014), Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder empowerment program: A grant project

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

MERCED M J DE LA (2017), Blue Apron Slashes Price For Its I.P.O

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