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

Sarewitz D. World view: Defending democracy. Nature. 2010 Jun 3;465(7298):546.

A journal article with 2 authors

McLennan MR, Hockings KJ. Wild chimpanzees show group differences in selection of agricultural crops. Sci Rep. 2014 Aug 5;4:5956.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li LY, Luo X, Wang X. Endonuclease G is an apoptotic DNase when released from mitochondria. Nature. 2001 Jul 5;412(6842):95–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shao J, Griffin RJ, Galanzha EI, Kim JW, Koonce N, Webber J, et al. Photothermal nanodrugs: potential of TNF-gold nanospheres for cancer theranostics. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1293.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alladin A. Integrative CBT for Anxiety Disorders. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Boylan M, editor. Public Health Policy and Ethics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005. XXXIV, 246 p. (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine; vol. 19).

A chapter in an edited book

Pedersen L, Frier C. Predicting Footbridge Response Using Stochastic Load Models. In: Cunha A, editor. Topics in Dynamics of Bridges, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2013. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 47–53. (Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series).

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. A new metamaterial gives visible light a nearly infinite wavelength [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-metamaterial-gives-visible-light-nearly-infinite-wavelength/

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. CROSSTALK and Mirror: What’s New Under the CROSSTALK Standard--Part 1. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Mar. Report No.: 140678.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Scharf MT. Comparing Student Cumulative Course Grades, Attrition, and Satisfaction in Traditional and Virtual Classroom Environments [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2015.

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

Murphy MJO. For Giddyup, Give a Horse a Holiday. New York Times. 2010 Apr 18;WK2.

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

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