How to format your references using the Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior. 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

Fabian, A.C., 2002. Radio galaxies. Bubbles, flows, and fields. Science 296, 1040–1041.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, N., DiCarlo, J.J., 2008. Unsupervised natural experience rapidly alters invariant object representation in visual cortex. Science 321, 1502–1507.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barry, L., Craig, G.C., Thuburn, J., 2002. Poleward heat transport by the atmospheric heat engine. Nature 415, 774–777.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stevenson, S., Fowler, P.W., Heine, T., Duchamp, J.C., Rice, G., Glass, T., Harich, K., Hajdu, E., Bible, R., Dorn, H.C., 2000. A stable non-classical metallofullerene family. Nature 408, 427–428.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hahn, A., Behle, B., Lischewski, D., Rein, W., 2002. Produktionstechnische Praxis. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Iwamoto, N., Yuen, M.M.F., Fan, H. (Eds.), 2012. Molecular Modeling and Multiscaling Issues for Electronic Material Applications. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Almeida, J.B., Frade, M.J., Pinto, J.S., Melo de Sousa, S., 2011. Hoare Logic, in: Frade, M.J., Pinto, J.S., Melo de Sousa, S. (Eds.), Rigorous Software Development: An Introduction to Program Verification, Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, London, pp. 129–157.

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 Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. Could This New Clock Redefine The Length Of A Second? [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, 1996. Telecommunications: Initiatives Taken by Three States to Promote Increased Access and Investment (No. RCED-96-68). 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

Heffner, M.D., 2017. Informing Decision-Making for Derailments Involving Hazmat: An Analysis of Phmsa Train Accident Data (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

Protess, B., Ivory, D., 2016. Bill to Weaken Dodd-Frank’s Rules on Private Equity Nears House Vote. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fabian, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Fabian, 2002; Li and DiCarlo, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Li and DiCarlo, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Stevenson et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior
Abbreviation	Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0091-3057
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry Behavioral Neuroscience Biological Psychiatry Pharmacology Toxicology