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

Savage N. 2015. Synthetic coatings: Super surfaces. Nature 519:S7-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carter N.J. and R.A. Cross. 2005. Mechanics of the kinesin step. Nature 435:308–312.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lineweaver C.H., Y. Fenner, and B.K. Gibson. 2004. The galactic habitable zone and the age distribution of complex life in the Milky Way. Science 303:59–62.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Houlahan J.E., C.S. Findlay, B.R. Schmidt, A.H. Meyer, and S.L. Kuzmin. 2000. Quantitative evidence for global amphibian population declines. Nature 404:752–755.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robson Wright M. 2005. An Introduction to Chemical Kinetics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Goethals B. and A. Siebes, eds. 2005. Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases: Third International Workshop, KDID 2004, Pisa, Italy, September 20, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 3377). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ashyralyev A. and F. Çekiç. 2016. On Source Identification Problem for Telegraph Differential Equations. Pp. 39–50 in S. Pinelas, Z. Došlá, O. Došlý, and P.E. Kloeden eds. Differential and Difference Equations with Applications: ICDDEA, Amadora, Portugal, May 2015, Selected Contributions, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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

Luntz S. 2016. Three Steps Forward For Solar Cell Research. 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. 2000. Federally Funded Math and Science Materials (No. GAO-01-81R). 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

Ortiz Martinez B. 2009. Diabetes among older Latino adults (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

Wagner J. 2017. Familia’s Surgery Has Mets Scrambling in the Bullpen. New York Times, p. D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Savage 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Carter and Cross 2005; Savage 2015).

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

Two authors: (Carter and Cross 2005)
Three or more authors: (Houlahan et al. 2000)

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

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