How to format your references using the Canadian Pharmacists Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 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

Mirabel IF. Astronomy. Gamma-ray binaries revealed. Science. 2012 Jan 13;335(6065):175–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Karakas E, Furukawa H. Crystal structure of a heterotetrameric NMDA receptor ion channel. Science. 2014 May 30;344(6187):992–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oliet SH, Piet R, Poulain DA. Control of glutamate clearance and synaptic efficacy by glial coverage of neurons. Science. 2001 May 4;292(5518):923–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xie SY, Gao F, Lu X, Huang RB, Wang CR, Zhang X, et al. Capturing the labile fullerene[50] as C50Cl10. Science. 2004 Apr 30;304(5671):699.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ferdjallah M. Introduction to Digital Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Bourassa MG, Tardif JC, editors. Antioxidants and Cardiovascular Disease. Second Edition. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006. XVI, 494 p. (Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine; vol. 258).

A chapter in an edited book

Bonamonte D, Verni P, Filoni A, Angelini G. Dermatitis Caused by Molluscs. In: Bonamonte D, Angelini G, editors. Aquatic Dermatology: Biotic, Chemical and Physical Agents. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 105–13.

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 Canadian Pharmacists Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Watch a Gorilla Reunite With The Man Who Raised Him. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-gorilla-reuniting-man-who-raised-him/

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

Government Accountability Office. Legislative Developments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986 Jan. Report No.: 132007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beck ES. Waging war with words: Idealized gender and Iberian chivalry [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2008.

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

Qiu L. Phone Surveillance, Falsehoods and Anonymous Sources. New York Times. 2017 Mar 6;A16.

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	Canadian Pharmacists Journal
Abbreviation	Can. Pharm. J. (Ott.)
ISSN (print)	1715-1635
ISSN (online)	1913-701X
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science