How to format your references using the Pharmaceutical Bioprocessing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pharmaceutical Bioprocessing. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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McGaugh S. Astronomy. Seeing through dark matter. Science. 317(5838), 607–608 (2007).
A journal article with 2 authors
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Mjolsness E, DeCoste D. Machine learning for science: state of the art and future prospects. Science. 293(5537), 2051–2055 (2001).
A journal article with 3 authors
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Supèr H, Spekreijse H, Lamme VA. A neural correlate of working memory in the monkey primary visual cortex. Science. 293(5527), 120–124 (2001).
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Vacic V, McCarthy S, Malhotra D, et al. Duplications of the neuropeptide receptor gene VIPR2 confer significant risk for schizophrenia. Nature. 471(7339), 499–503 (2011).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Malina M. Delivering Sustainable Buildings. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford.
An edited book
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Chignell M, Cordy JR, Kealey R, Ng J, Yesha Y, editors. The Personal Web: A Research Agenda. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
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Baviera R, La Bua G, Pellicioli P. CVA with Wrong-Way Risk in the Presence of Early Exercise. In: Innovations in Derivatives Markets: Fixed Income Modeling, Valuation Adjustments, Risk Management, and Regulation. Glau K, Grbac Z, Scherer M, Zagst R (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 103–116 (2016).

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 Pharmaceutical Bioprocessing.

Blog post
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Andrew E. Alzheimer’s Patients To Be Given Young Blood In Clinical Trial [Internet]. IFLScience (2014). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/alzheimers-patients-be-given-young-blood-clinical-trial/.

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
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Government Accountability Office. High-Speed Ground Transport: Acquiring Rights-of-Way for Maglev Systems Requires a Flexible Approach. 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
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Walker NA. Mothers’ description of raising two children with an autism spectrum disorder: A case study. (2010).

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
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Creswell J, Story L. On All Levels of the Economy, Concern About the Impasse: Losing Top Rating Could Cost Growth And Job Creation. New York Times, B1 (2011).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 titlePharmaceutical Bioprocessing
AbbreviationPharm. Bioprocess.
ISSN (print)2048-9145
ISSN (online)2048-9153
ScopeBiomedical Engineering
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

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