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

Smaglik, P., 2002. Building Nordic networks. Nature 420, A3, A5, A7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Junge, W., Nelson, N., 2005. Structural biology. Nature’s rotary electromotors. Science 308, 642–644.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bylander, J., Duty, T., Delsing, P., 2005. Current measurement by real-time counting of single electrons. Nature 434, 361–364.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kroodsma, D.A., Mayorga, J., Hochberg, T., Miller, N.A., Boerder, K., Ferretti, F., Wilson, A., Bergman, B., White, T.D., Block, B.A., Woods, P., Sullivan, B., Costello, C., Worm, B., 2018. Response to Comment on “Tracking the global footprint of fisheries.” Science 361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sadr, A., 2009. Interest Rate Swaps and Their Derivatives. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Koubaa, A. (Ed.), 2016. Robot Operating System (ROS): The Complete Reference (Volume 1), 1st ed. 2016. ed, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Cunnington, A., Patel, S., Lyall, H., 2010. Why Are Some Babies Still Being Infected with HIV in the UK?, in: Finn, A., Curtis, N., Pollard, A.J. (Eds.), Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children VI, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 57–71.

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

Luntz, S., 2015. Volcanic Vents Reveal Bleak Future For Oceans [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/volcanic-vents-reveal-bleak-future-oceans/ (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, 1981. Increased Federal Telecommunications System Use by Strengthened Control Over Commercial Toll Calls Could Reduce Costs (No. MASAD-82-4). 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

Grayson, N., 2014. Development of a preliminary scale of counterproductive experiences in supervision: Attitudes of clinical psychology doctoral students (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Novick, S.M., 2014. At an 85-Year-Old Summer Retreat, a Makeover. New York Times LI8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Junge and Nelson, 2005; Smaglik, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Junge and Nelson, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Kroodsma et al., 2018)

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

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