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. Abeles FF. Mathematics: Logic and Lewis Carroll. Nature. 2015;527:302–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Laurie B, Doctorow C. Computing: secure the internet. Nature. 2012;491:325–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Burghes AH, Vaessin HE, de La Chapelle A. Genetics. The land between Mendelian and multifactorial inheritance. Science. 2001;293:2213–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Jékely G, Colombelli J, Hausen H, Guy K, Stelzer E, Nédélec F, et al. Mechanism of phototaxis in marine zooplankton. Nature. 2008;456:395–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Flaus J-M. Risk Analysis. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Noureldin A. Fundamentals of Inertial Navigation, Satellite-based Positioning and their Integration. Karamat TB, Georgy J, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kulić ML, Buzdin AI. Coexistence of Singlet Superconductivity and Magnetic Order in Bulk Magnetic Superconductors and SF Heterostructures. In: Bennemann KH, Ketterson JB, editors. Superconductivity: Conventional and Unconventional Superconductors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 163–200.

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. Luntz S. Eight Exoplanets That Could Support Life Discovered [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/two-most-earth-planets-yet-announced/

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. Deaf Education: The National Mission of Gallaudet’s Elementary and Secondary Schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Sep. Report No.: HRD-87-133.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hendry M. The Lonely Nineteenth Century: Loneliness and the Female Protagonist in the Victorian Novel [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2014.

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. Pilon M. All-American Match, All-American Ending. New York Times. 2012 Aug 9;B13.

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