How to format your references using the Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior. 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

Rylance, R., 2015. Grant giving: Global funders to focus on interdisciplinarity. Nature 525, 313–315.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rosenfeld, D., Woodley, W.L., 2000. Deep convective clouds with sustained supercooled liquid water down to -37.5 degrees C. Nature 405, 440–442.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dally, J.M., Emery, N.J., Clayton, N.S., 2006. Food-caching western scrub-jays keep track of who was watching when. Science 312, 1662–1665.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhao, X., Xu, Z., Zheng, B., Gao, C., 2013. Macroscopic assembled, ultrastrong and H(2)SO(4)-resistant fibres of polymer-grafted graphene oxide. Sci. Rep. 3, 3164.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Iacus, S.M., 2011. Option Pricing and Estimation of Financial Models with R. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Pan, Z., Cheok, A.D., Müller, W., Chang, M. (Eds.), 2009. Transactions on Edutainment III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Naumann, A.B., Wechsung, I., Möller, S., 2008. Factors Influencing Modality Choice in Multimodal Applications, in: André, E., Dybkjær, L., Minker, W., Neumann, H., Pieraccini, R., Weber, M. (Eds.), Perception in Multimodal Dialogue Systems: 4th IEEE Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perception and Interactive Technologies for Speech-Based Systems, PIT 2008, Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 16-18, 2008. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 37–43.

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 Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Sticky Plant Wears Armor of Dead Insects [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, 2010. Next Generation Air Transportation System: Challenges with Partner Agency and FAA Coordination Continue, and Efforts to Integrate Near-, Mid-, and Long-term Activities Are Ongoing (No. GAO-10-649T). 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

Brady, D.C., 2008. The transforming Rho family GTPase, Wrch -1, regulates epithelial cell morphogenesis through modulating cell junctions and actin cytoskeletal dynamics (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. Flores, Mets’ Lone Holdout, Wins His Arbitration Case. New York Times SP2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rylance, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Rosenfeld and Woodley, 2000; Rylance, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rosenfeld and Woodley, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior
Abbreviation	Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0091-3057
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry Behavioral Neuroscience Biological Psychiatry Pharmacology Toxicology