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

McDevitt J. The candidate. Nature. 440(7083), 580 (2006).

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolff S, Dillin A. Cell biology: The stressful influence of microbes. Nature. 508(7496), 328–329 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

Goda K, Tsia KK, Jalali B. Serial time-encoded amplified imaging for real-time observation of fast dynamic phenomena. Nature. 458(7242), 1145–1149 (2009).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Spilker JS, Aravena M, Béthermin M, et al. Fast molecular outflow from a dusty star-forming galaxy in the early Universe. Science. 361(6406), 1016–1019 (2018).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Micouin P. Model-Based Systems Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Jamali N, Scerri P, Sugawara T, editors. Massively Multi-Agent Technology: AAMAS Workshops, MMAS 2006, LSMAS 2006, and CCMMS 2007 Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006 Honolulu, HI, USA, May 15, 2007 Selected and Revised Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Walber T, Scherp A, Staab S. Can You See It? Two Novel Eye-Tracking-Based Measures for Assigning Tags to Image Regions. In: Advances in Multimedia Modeling: 19th International Conference, MMM 2013, Huangshan, China, January 7-9, 2013, Proceedings, Part I. Li S, Saddik AE, Wang M, et al. (Eds.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 36–46 (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

Fang J. From Dinosaur Arms To Bird Wings: It’s All In The Wrists. IFLScience (2014).

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. Landsat Policy Issues Still Unresolved. 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

Mills CC. Olfaction and Exhibition: Assessing the Impact of Scent in Museums on Exhibit Engagement, Learning and Empathy. (2017).

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

Vecsey G. The Daddy of All Rivals: Martinez Is Back. New York Times, B11 (2009).

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

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