How to format your references using the Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology. 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

Leonard, D.C., 2007. Astronomy. A supernova riddle. Science 315, 193–194.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mann, C.C., Plummer, M.L., 2000. ECOLOGY: The Other H’s. Science 289, 718.

A journal article with 3 authors

Davies, P.C.W., Davis, T.M., Lineweaver, C.H., 2002. Black holes constrain varying constants. Nature 418, 602–603.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fyhn, M., Hafting, T., Treves, A., Moser, M.-B., Moser, E.I., 2007. Hippocampal remapping and grid realignment in entorhinal cortex. Nature 446, 190–194.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Temple, L.P., III, 2013. Implosion. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kim, J., Shin, H. (Eds.), 2014. Algorithm & SoC Design for Automotive Vision Systems: For Smart Safe Driving System. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Smith, C.A.S., 2014. Assessing Academic STEM Women’s Sense of Isolation in the Workplace, in: Gilmer, P.J., Tansel, B., Miller, M.H. (Eds.), Alliances for Advancing Academic Women: Guidelines for Collaborating in STEM Fields. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 97–117.

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 Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Injecting Bacteria Can Shrink Tumors [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1989. Observations on Management of Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (No. T-HRD-89-34). 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

Hernandez, M., 2014. Successful emancipation of foster youth through the use of mentors: A grant proposal (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

Prochnik, G., 2013. I’m Thinking. Please. Be Quiet. New York Times SR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leonard, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Leonard, 2007; Mann and Plummer, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Mann and Plummer, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Fyhn et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology
Abbreviation	Pestic. Biochem. Physiol.
ISSN (print)	0048-3575
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis General Medicine