How to format your references using the Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin (APB). 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Savchenko A. Materials science. Transforming graphene. Science 2009;323(5914):589-90.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jing J, Wu LA. Control of decoherence with no control. Sci Rep 2013;3:2746.

A journal article with 3 authors

Naya Y, Yoshida M, Miyashita Y. Backward spreading of memory-retrieval signal in the primate temporal cortex. Science 2001;291(5504):661-4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Miled N, Yan Y, Hon WC, Perisic O, Zvelebil M, Inbar Y, et al. Mechanism of two classes of cancer mutations in the phosphoinositide 3-kinase catalytic subunit. Science 2007;317(5835):239-42.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne C. Mechanical Shock. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Orsillo SM, Roemer L, editors. Acceptance and Mindfulness-Based Approaches to Anxiety: Conceptualization and Treatment. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirzalla M, Cleland-Huang J, Arsanjani A. A Metrics Suite for Evaluating Flexibility and Complexity in Service Oriented Architectures. In: Feuerlicht G, Lamersdorf W, editors Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2008 Workshops: ICSOC 2008 International Workshops, Sydney, Australia, December 1st, 2008, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. P. 41-52.

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 Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. How Do We Tell The World That We’ve Found Alien Life? IFLScience. Published May 24, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-do-we-tell-world-weve-found-alien-life/

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. Bilingual Education: Research and Evaluation Contracts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Duncan KF. Middle school teachers’ self-perceptions of response to intervention. Published online 2016.

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

Schwartz J. Picking a Portfolio With Pokéballs. New York Times. October 14, 2016:BU19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin
ISSN (print)	2228-5881
ISSN (online)	2251-7308
Scope