How to format your references using the Acta Pharmaceutica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Pharmaceutica. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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.B. Cannon, Sensation and loss, Nature 503 (2013) S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1.P. J. Hines and J. Marx, The endless race between plant and pathogen, Science 292 (2001) 2269.

A journal article with 3 authors

1.S. Foulquier, U. M. Steckelings and T. Unger, Perspective: A tale of two receptors, Nature 493 (2013) S9.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

1.Y. Chung, I. Klimanskaya, S. Becker, J. Marh, S.-J. Lu, J. Johnson, L. Meisner and R. Lanza, Embryonic and extraembryonic stem cell lines derived from single mouse blastomeres, Nature 439 (2006) 216–219.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1.P. M. Curtis, Maintaining Mission Critical Systems in a 24/7 Environment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

1.P. Halasz, Dynamic Structure of NREM Sleep, (R. Bodizs, Ed.). London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

1.S. R. Grinevetsky, I. S. Zonn, S. S. Zhiltsov, A. N. Kosarev and A. G. Kostianoy, D, In I. S. Zonn, S. S. Zhiltsov, A. N. Kosarev, & A. G. Kostianoy (Eds.), The Black Sea Encyclopedia (pp. 217–254). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Acta Pharmaceutica.

Blog post

1.J. O`Callaghan, Watch Live As Elon Musk Reveals His Plan To Colonize Mars, IFLScience. IFLScience.; Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-as-elon-musk-reveals-his-plan-to-colonize-mars/

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, Electronic Government: Challenges Must Be Addressed With Effective Leadership and Management (No. GAO-01-959T). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1.K. Subramanian, Mechanisms and Effect of Microstructure on High Temperature Deformation of Gamma-TiAl Based Alloys (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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.M. S. Schmidt, Trump Appealed to Comey to Halt Inquiry Into Aide, New York Times, p. A1.

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	Acta Pharmaceutica
Abbreviation	Acta Pharm.
ISSN (print)	1330-0075
ISSN (online)	1846-9558
Scope	General Medicine Pharmaceutical Science Pharmacology