How to format your references using the DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 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

1. Walker RJ. Earth science. The extraterrestrial wedding ring. Nature. 2000;406:359–60.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rubincam DP, Paddack SJ. Planetary science. As tiny worlds turn. Science. 2007;316:211–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Heiling AM, Herberstein ME, Chittka L. Pollinator attraction: Crab-spiders manipulate flower signals. Nature. 2003;421:334.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Gaietta G, Deerinck TJ, Adams SR, Bouwer J, Tour O, Laird DW, et al. Multicolor and electron microscopic imaging of connexin trafficking. Science. 2002;296:503–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hopkins BR. Fundraising Law Made Easy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Bliesemann de Guevara B, editor. Myth and Narrative in International Politics: Interpretive Approaches to the Study of IR. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Greve R, Blatter H. Large-Scale Dynamics of Ice Sheets. In: Blatter H, editor. Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 61–109.

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 DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Blocking Inflammation For Too Long Could Be Bad For Your Heart [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/blocking-inflammation-too-long-could-be-bad-your-heart/

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. Transportation Infrastructure: Impacts of Utility Relocations on Highway and Bridge Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Jun. Report No.: RCED-99-131.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Zakharov D. The discrete Dirac operator and the discrete generalized Weierstrass representation in pseudo-Euclidean spaces [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2010.

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. Sanger DE, Mazzetti M, Hubbard B. Errant Strike Impairs Effort to Calm Syria. New York Times. 2016 Sep 19;A1.

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	DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Abbreviation	Daru
ISSN (online)	2008-2231
Scope