How to format your references using the Physiological and Biochemical Zoology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 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

Eagleman D.M. 2004. Neuroscience. The where and when of intention. Science 303:1144–1146.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stern D.L. and V. Orgogozo. 2009. Is genetic evolution predictable? Science 323:746–751.

A journal article with 3 authors

Polley D.B., E. Kvasnák, and R.D. Frostig. 2004. Naturalistic experience transforms sensory maps in the adult cortex of caged animals. Nature 429:67–71.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Teixeira A., A. Tahiri-Alaoui, S. West, B. Thomas, A. Ramadass, I. Martianov, M. Dye, et al. 2004. Autocatalytic RNA cleavage in the human beta-globin pre-mRNA promotes transcription termination. Nature 432:526–530.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mattu A., S.A. Grossman, and P.L. Rosen. 2016. Geriatric Emergencies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Milutinović D. and J. Rosen, eds. 2013. Redundancy in Robot Manipulators and Multi-Robot Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (Vol. 57). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Leducq J.-B. 2014. Ecological Genomics of Adaptation and Speciation in Fungi. Pp. 49–72 in C.R. Landry and N. Aubin-Horth eds. Ecological Genomics: Ecology and the Evolution of Genes and Genomes, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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 Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. 2015. Astronomers Use Star Pulsation To Estimate Galaxy Age. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1969. Deficiencies in the Recording and Reporting of Contractor-Held, Government-Owned Property, Goddard Space Flight Center (No. 092675). 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

Conner P.A. 2009. The STAR Math test as a predictor of Arkansas BenchmarkTest scores (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Kelly C. 2007. Lesson One: The Price the Contractor Quotes Is an Estimate. New York Times, p. F4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eagleman 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Eagleman 2004; Stern and Orgogozo 2009).

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

Two authors: (Stern and Orgogozo 2009)
Three or more authors: (Teixeira et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
Abbreviation	Physiol. Biochem. Zool.
ISSN (print)	1522-2152
ISSN (online)	1537-5293
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Biochemistry Physiology