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

Becker, T., 2010. Geophysics. Fine-scale modeling of global plate tectonics. Science 329, 1020–1021.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson, J.D., Schubert, G., 2007. Saturn’s gravitational field, internal rotation, and interior structure. Science 317, 1384–1387.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jin, F.-F., Boucharel, J., Lin, I.-I., 2014. Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones intensified by El Niño delivery of subsurface ocean heat. Nature 516, 82–85.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chambers, J.Q., Higuchi, N., Tribuzy, E.S., Trumbore, S.E., 2001. Carbon sink for a century. Nature 410, 429.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allen, M.W., 2016. Michael Allen’s Guide to e-Learning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Jacob, R.J.K., Limbourg, Q., Vanderdonckt, J. (Eds.), 2005. Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces IV: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces CADUI’2004 Sponsored by ACM and jointly organised with the Eight ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI’2004 13–16 January 2004, Funchal, Isle of Madeira. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Pardillo, J., Golfarelli, M., Rizzi, S., Trujillo, J., 2009. Visual Modelling of Data Warehousing Flows with UML Profiles, in: Pedersen, T.B., Mohania, M.K., Tjoa, A.M. (Eds.), Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery: 11th International Conference, DaWaK 2009 Linz, Austria, August 31–September 2, 2009 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 36–47.

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

Hale, T., 2015. Great White Sharks Like Heavy Metal Music [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/death-metal-can-be-used-attract-great-white-sharks/ (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. Student Loans: Federal Web-based Tool on Private Loans Would Pose Implementation Challenges and May Be Unnecessary (No. GAO-10-990). 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

Fisher, M.D., 2014. The impact adult supervision, role models, and civic engagement has on the health status of adolescents (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. Supreme Court Turns Down Detainees’ Habeas Corpus Case. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Becker, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Anderson and Schubert, 2007; Becker, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Anderson and Schubert, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Chambers et al., 2001)

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