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

Bland PA. Astronomy. Small-scale observations tell a cosmological story. Science. 2008 Apr 4;320(5872):61–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roth A, Diederichs S. Molecular biology: Rap and chirp about X inactivation. Nature. 2015 May 14;521(7551):170–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

DasGupta S, Ferreira CH, Miesenböck G. FoxP influences the speed and accuracy of a perceptual decision in Drosophila. Science. 2014 May 23;344(6186):901–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Song JJ, Smith SK, Hannon GJ, Joshua-Tor L. Crystal structure of Argonaute and its implications for RISC slicer activity. Science. 2004 Sep 3;305(5689):1434–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

English JF. The Global Future of English Studies. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Williams M, Lee JCK, editors. Schooling for Sustainable Development in Chinese Communities: Experience with Younger Children. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. 300 p. (Schooling for Sustainable Development; vol. 1).

A chapter in an edited book

De la Prieta F, De Paz Santana JF, Gil AB, Boureux M. Retrieving Learning Resources over the Cloud. In: Uden L, Corchado Rodríguez ES, De Paz Santana JF, De la Prieta F, editors. Workshop on Learning Technology for Education in Cloud (LTEC’12). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 47–56. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing).

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

Andrews R. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. CRISPR Scientists Are Bringing Woolly Mammoths Back From The Dead. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/crispr-scientists-bringing-woolly-mammoths-back-dead/

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. OPM Retirement Modernization: Longstanding Information Technology Management Weaknesses Need to Be Addressed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Nov. Report No.: GAO-12-226T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Horta G. The potential of the Eurozone crisis to mobilize extreme right support in Spain, Portugal, and Italy [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2013.

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

Saslow L. Village Wants Restaurant Wastewater Degreased. New York Times. 2007 Jun 3;14LI2.

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