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.S. Wu, State tomography via weak measurements, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1193.

A journal article with 2 authors

1.J. Goodall and L. Pintea, Securing a future for chimpanzees, Nature 466 (2010) 180–181.

A journal article with 3 authors

1.T. B. McCord, G. B. Hansen and C. A. Hibbitts, Hydrated salt minerals on Ganymede’s surface: evidence of an ocean below, Science 292 (2001) 1523–1525.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

1.J. Harrington, S. Luszcz, S. Seager, D. Deming and L. J. Richardson, The hottest planet, Nature 447 (2007) 691–693.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1.B. Stuart, Forensic Analytical Techniques: Stuart/Forensic Analytical Techniques, Analytical Techniques in the Sciences. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

1.M. Benedini, Water Quality Modelling for Rivers and Streams, (G. Tsakiris, Ed.)Water Science and Technology Library (Vol. 70). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

1.N. M. McClure-Griffiths, J. M. Dickey, B. M. Gaensler and A. J. Green, The Structure of Galactic Hydrogen on the Largest Scales, In E. J. Alfaro, E. Pérez, & J. Franco (Eds.), How does the Galaxy Work?: A Galactic Tertulia with Don Cox and Ron Reynolds, Astrophysics and Space Science Library (pp. 34–38). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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.R. Andrews, Humans Are Forcing New Species To Appear Through Unnatural Selection, IFLScience. IFLScience.; Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/humans-are-forcing-new-species-to-appear-through-unnatural-selection/

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, Status of FCC Efforts To Allocate Costs Between Telephone Companies’ Regulated and Unregulated Activities (No. RCED-83-235). 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.T.-C. T. Ko, The ALISA delta(CRC) classifier for natural surfaces: Viewpoint-invariant and illumination-invariant classification of natural surfaces using general-purpose color and texture features with the ALISA delta(CRC) classifier (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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.K. Feeney, Bakery That Sells and Gives, New York Times, p. NJ12.

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