How to format your references using the Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 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]

Ziemelis K. Hydrocarbon reservoirs. Nature 2003;426:317.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

De Tomaso AW, Weissman IL. Evolution of a protochordate allorecognition locus. Science 2004;303:977.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Matsui K, Yoshida H, Ikuhara Y. Nanocrystalline, ultra-degradation-resistant zirconia: its grain boundary nanostructure and nanochemistry. Sci Rep 2014;4:4758.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kmita M, Tarchini B, Zàkàny J, Logan M, Tabin CJ, Duboule D. Early developmental arrest of mammalian limbs lacking HoxA/HoxD gene function. Nature 2005;435:1113–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Quinn JF. Dementia. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Molina JM, Corredera JRC, Pérez MFC, Ortega-García J, Barbolla AMB, editors. User-Centric Technologies and Applications: Proceedings of the CONTEXTS 2011 Workshop. vol. 94. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rhee HS, Jeong IR, Byun JW, Lee DH. Difference Set Attacks on Conjunctive Keyword Search Schemes. In: Jonker W, Petković M, editors. Secure Data Management: Third VLDB Workshop, SDM 2006, Seoul, Korea, September 10-11, 2006. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006, p. 64–74.

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 Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Forgotten Amber Collection Gives New Insight To Ancient Ecosystems. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/forgotten-amber-collection-gives-new-insight-ancient-ecosystems/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Analysis of NASA’s Fiscal Year 1983 Budget Request for Research and Development To Determine the Amount That Supports DOD’s Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hutter-Thomas S. Sociocultural Evolution: An Examination of Unorthodox Elective Body Modification. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2017.

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]

Herrman J. Mayer’s Media Problem at Yahoo Is Now Verizon’s. New York Times 2016:B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
ISSN (print)	1818-0876
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