How to format your references using the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 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 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

[1]

P. Smaglik, Going green: Ireland, Nature 416 (2002) 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Miyake, R. Kalluri, Cardiac biology: Cell plasticity helps hearts to repair, Nature 514 (2014) 575–576.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Bruhn, N. Groebner, D.L. Kohlstedt, An interconnected network of core-forming melts produced by shear deformation, Nature 403 (2000) 883–886.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.F. Palatnik, E. Allen, X. Wu, C. Schommer, R. Schwab, J.C. Carrington, D. Weigel, Control of leaf morphogenesis by microRNAs, Nature 425 (2003) 257–263.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D.W. Jones, Economic Theory and the Ancient Mediterranean, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

X. Zhang, Z. Wu, X. Sha, eds., Embedded System Technology: 13th National Conference, ESTC 2015, Beijing, China, October 10–11, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, 1st ed. 2015, Springer, Singapore, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H.S. Thomsen, Management of Acute Adverse Reactions to Contrast Media, in: H.S. Thomsen (Ed.), Contrast Media: Safety Issues and ESUR Guidelines, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 19–25.

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 Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, How We Showed ‘Sleeping On It’ Really Is The Best Way To Solve A Problem, IFLScience (2015).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Awarding and Implementing an Emergency School Aid Act Grant to the North End Concerned Citizens Community Council, Detroit, Michigan, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P.M. Binkley, Relationship of Graduate Student Involvement to Graduate Alumni Donor Behavior, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2012.

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

[1]

D. Itzkoff, D. Kelly, Music Chronicle, New York Times (2005) 724.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis
Abbreviation	J. Pharm. Biomed. Anal.
ISSN (print)	0731-7085
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Spectroscopy Drug Discovery Pharmaceutical Science