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.D. Ritson, Fuel for thought, Nature 421 (2003) 575–576.

A journal article with 2 authors

1.P. Carmeliet and R. K. Jain, Angiogenesis in cancer and other diseases, Nature 407 (2000) 249–257.

A journal article with 3 authors

1.A. Zavatta, S. Viciani and M. Bellini, Quantum-to-classical transition with single-photon-added coherent states of light, Science 306 (2004) 660–662.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

1.W. Purahong, M. Schloter, M. J. Pecyna, D. Kapturska, V. Däumlich, S. Mital, F. Buscot, M. Hofrichter, J. L. M. Gutknecht and D. Krüger, Uncoupling of microbial community structure and function in decomposing litter across beech forest ecosystems in Central Europe, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1.M. Jufer, Electric Drives. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

1.C. Singh, G. Singh Lehal, J. Sengupta, D. V. Sharma and V. Goyal (Eds.), Information Systems for Indian Languages: International Conference, ICISIL 2011, Patiala, India, March 9-11, 2011. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science (Vol. 139). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

1.C. Steuer, The Role of Elections: The Recomposition of the Party System and the Hierarchization of Political Issues, In B. Rougier & S. Lacroix (Eds.), Egypt’s Revolutions: Politics, Religion, and Social Movements (pp. 81–99). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

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, Nominations For The “Science Oscars” Have Opened With More Than $20m Up For Grabs, IFLScience. IFLScience.; Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/nominations-for-the-science-oscars-have-opened/

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, Supercomputing in Industry (No. T-IMTEC-91-5). 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.J. Reyes, Connections: A grant proposal for mothers struggling with substance abuse in the child welfare system (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.K. Feeney, His Spices Are a Secret, New York Times, p. NJ11.

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