How to format your references using the Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology. 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

Davidson, E.H., 2010. Emerging properties of animal gene regulatory networks. Nature 468, 911–920.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reineke, S., Baldo, M.A., 2014. Room temperature triplet state spectroscopy of organic semiconductors. Sci. Rep. 4, 3797.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sullivan, M.B., Waterbury, J.B., Chisholm, S.W., 2003. Cyanophages infecting the oceanic cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Nature 424, 1047–1051.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yang-Hartwich, Y., Gurrea-Soteras, M., Sumi, N., Joo, W.D., Holmberg, J.C., Craveiro, V., Alvero, A.B., Mor, G., 2014. Ovulation and extra-ovarian origin of ovarian cancer. Sci. Rep. 4, 6116.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Park, S., Guille-Escuret, G., 2017. Sociobiology vs Socioecology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Flüeler, T. (Ed.), 2006. Decision Making for Complex Socio-Technical Systems: Robustness from Lessons Learned in Long-term Radioactive Waste Governance, Environment & Policy. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Sun, L.R., Felling, R.J., 2016. Pediatric Vascular Neurology and Syndromes, in: Agrawal, A., Britz, G. (Eds.), Pediatric Vascular Neurosurgery: Principles and Practice of Neurovascular Disorders (Part 1). Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 37–46.

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 Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Chemistry Life Hacks [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2015. School Meals: USDA Could Improve Verification Process for Program Access (No. GAO-15-634T). 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

Ma, B., 2012. Improving the performance of hyperspectral target detection (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Oestreich, J.R., 2017. Silvery, Then Raucous: A Leap Across Time. New York Times C5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Davidson, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Davidson, 2010; Reineke and Baldo, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Reineke and Baldo, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Yang-Hartwich et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology
Abbreviation	Pestic. Biochem. Physiol.
ISSN (print)	0048-3575
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis General Medicine