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:

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

Adami C. Artificial intelligence: Robots with instincts. Nature. 521(7553), 426–427 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

Vollmer SV, Palumbi SR. Hybridization and the evolution of reef coral diversity. Science. 296(5575), 2023–2025 (2002).

A journal article with 3 authors

van Zuilen MA, Lepland A, Arrhenius G. Reassessing the evidence for the earliest traces of life. Nature. 418(6898), 627–630 (2002).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jarvis ED, Ribeiro S, da Silva ML, Ventura D, Vielliard J, Mello CV. Behaviourally driven gene expression reveals song nuclei in hummingbird brain. Nature. 406(6796), 628–632 (2000).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simmendinger H. HOAI 2013: Praxisleitfaden für Ingenieure und Architekten. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Sierra F, Kohanski R, editors. Advances in Geroscience. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Huang L-Q, Guo L-P. The Mechanism of Formation of Dao-di Herbs. In: Molecular Pharmacognosy. Huang L-Q (Ed.), Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 67–81 (2013).

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

Andrew E. Computer Program Reconstructed Dinosaur Locomotion. IFLScience (2013).

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. Information Technology: Agencies Need to Establish and Implement Incremental Development Policies. 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

Virchez Azuara A. A human resource perspective on the development of workforce agility. (2015).

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

Walsh MW, de la MERCED MJ. Big Setback For A.I.G. In Repaying Taxpayers. New York Times, B1 (2010).

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 title	Pharmaceutical Bioprocessing
Abbreviation	Pharm. Bioprocess.
ISSN (print)	2048-9145
ISSN (online)	2048-9153
Scope	Biomedical Engineering Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology