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.M. Ezawa, High spin-Chern insulators with magnetic order, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3435.

A journal article with 2 authors

1.S. Giovanoli and U. Meyer, Response to comment on “Stress in puberty unmasks latent neuropathological consequences of prenatal immune activation in mice,” Science 340 (2013) 811.

A journal article with 3 authors

1.A. I. Sobolevsky, M. P. Rosconi and E. Gouaux, X-ray structure, symmetry and mechanism of an AMPA-subtype glutamate receptor, Nature 462 (2009) 745–756.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

1.A. Bornemann, R. D. Norris, O. Friedrich, B. Beckmann, S. Schouten, J. S. S. Damsté, J. Vogel, P. Hofmann and T. Wagner, Isotopic evidence for glaciation during the Cretaceous supergreenhouse, Science 319 (2008) 189–192.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1.M. Iosifescu, N. Limnios and G. Oprişan, Introduction to Stochastic Models. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

1.B. Schwenker, Making Growth Work: How Companies Can Expand and Become More Efficient, (S. Bötzel, Ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

1.J. Hoffstein, J. Pipher and J. H. Silverman, Combinatorics, Probability, and Information Theory, In J. Pipher & J. H. Silverman (Eds.), An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics (pp. 207–298). New York, NY: 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.E. Andrew, Engaging The Public With Science Can Yield Unexpected Rewards, IFLScience. IFLScience.; Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/engaging-public-science-can-yield-unexpected-rewards/

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, Aviation Security: Progress Made to Set Up Program Using Private-Sector Airport Screeners, but More Work Remains (No. GAO-06-166). 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.A. Bakirci, Proteomic analysis of hepatocyte proteins in response to in vivo iron overload (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

1.G. Vecsey, A Different World Is Awaiting the U.S, New York Times, p. B12.

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