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

O’CALLAGHAN T 2011 Introduction: The prevention agenda. Nature 471(7339): S2-4

A journal article with 2 authors

NEMOTO S and FINKEL T 2002 Redox regulation of forkhead proteins through a p66shc-dependent signaling pathway. Science 295(5564): 2450–2452

A journal article with 3 authors

STANGER B Z, TANAKA A J, and MELTON D A 2007 Organ size is limited by the number of embryonic progenitor cells in the pancreas but not the liver. Nature 445(7130): 886–891

A journal article with 4 or more authors

LI Y, GUO Q, KALB J A, and THOMPSON C V 2008 Matching glass-forming ability with the density of the amorphous phase. Science 322(5909): 1816–1819

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

KARAMALIDIS A K and DZOMBAK D A 2010 Surface Complexation Modeling, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

WOLF B A and ENDERS S, Eds, 2011 Polymer Thermodynamics: Liquid Polymer-Containing Mixtures, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

RINKEVICH Y, MATRANGA V, and RINKEVICH B 2009 Stem Cells in Aquatic Invertebrates: Common Premises and Emerging Unique Themes, In: Rinkevich B and Matranga V (eds) Stem Cells in Marine Organisms, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, p 61

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

LUNTZ S World’s Largest Wasp Nest Found In Tasmania, WEB: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/worlds-largest-wasp-nest-found-tasmania/

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 2004 Coast Guard Programs: Relationship between Resources Used and Results Achieved Needs to Be Clearer, 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

SINGH A (2017), Improving the Usability of Typometric Solutions

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

PILON M (2013), Looking Good, Shooting Ugly

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