How to format your references using the Periodicum Biologorum citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Periodicum Biologorum. 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

SAVAGE N 2013 Modelling: Predictive yield. Nature 501(7468): S10-1

A journal article with 2 authors

SURANI A and SMITH J 2007 Obituary: Anne McLaren (1927-2007). Nature 448(7155): 764–765

A journal article with 3 authors

GOLLO L L, KINOUCHI O, and COPELLI M 2013 Single-neuron criticality optimizes analog dendritic computation. Sci Rep 3: 3222

A journal article with 4 or more authors

IRELAND T R, HOLDEN P, NORMAN M D, and CLARKE J 2006 Isotopic enhancements of 17O and 18O from solar wind particles in the lunar regolith. Nature 440(7085): 776–778

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

CURRY S H and WHELPTON R 2010 Drug Disposition and Pharmacokinetics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

NAKAO K, MINATO N, and UEMOTO S, Eds, 2015 Innovative Medicine: Basic Research and Development, Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

MARCZYK J and DESHPANDE B 2008 Measuring and Tracking Complexity in Science, In: Minai A, Braha D, and Bar-Yam Y (eds) Unifying Themes in Complex Systems: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Complex Systems, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p 27

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 Periodicum Biologorum.

Blog post

ANDREW E Study Suggests Exercise Is Associated With Changes In Brain Structure, WEB: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/twin-study-suggests-exercise-associated-changes-brain-structure/

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 1997 Health, Education and Human Services Information Systems Issue Area--Active Assignments, 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

EL-AMINE Z (2010), Waking Up in Beirut

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

OESTREICH J R (2017), Move Over, Bach. Handel’s Moving In

In-text citations

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

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	Periodicum Biologorum
Abbreviation	Period. Biol.
ISSN (print)	0031-5362
ISSN (online)	1849-0964
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Medicine