How to format your references using the Clinical Pharmacokinetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Pharmacokinetics. 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	Download the output style file
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. Landolt HP. CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS. Caffeine, the circadian clock, and sleep. Science. 2015;349:1289.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kidder SQ, Vonder Haar TH. Atmospheric science. Observing weather from space. Science. 2010;327:1085–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Russell SH, Hancock MP, McCullough J. The pipeline. Benefits of undergraduate research experiences. Science. 2007;316:548–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Tashiro A, Sandler VM, Toni N, Zhao C, Gage FH. NMDA-receptor-mediated, cell-specific integration of new neurons in adult dentate gyrus. Nature. 2006;442:929–33.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Shaw MT. Introduction to Polymer Rheology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Arce G, Bak K, Shea KP, Savoie F III, Kibler WB, Itoi E, et al., editors. Shoulder Concepts 2013: Consensus and Concerns: Proceedings of the ISAKOS Upper Extremity Committees 2009-2013. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Selvi SSD, Vivek SS, Vinayagamurthy D, Rangan CP. ID Based Signcryption Scheme in Standard Model. In: Takagi T, Wang G, Qin Z, Jiang S, Yu Y, editors. Provable Security: 6th International Conference, ProvSec 2012, Chengdu, China, September 26-28, 2012 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 35–52.

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 Clinical Pharmacokinetics.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. In The Search For Alien Life, Little Green Men Are Out and Purple Bacteria Are In [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/search-alien-life-little-green-men-are-out-and-purple-bacteria-are/

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. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Nov. Report No.: GAO-08-202R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Greenfield Pace JA. The influence of accountability and commitment on team performance of airline flight crews [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2016.

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. Greenhouse L. Habeas Corpus Case Turns On Buttons Worn at Trial. New York Times. 2006 Apr 18;A24.

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	Clinical Pharmacokinetics
Abbreviation	Clin. Pharmacokinet.
ISSN (print)	0312-5963
ISSN (online)	1179-1926
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology