How to format your references using the Hospital Pharmacy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hospital Pharmacy. 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

Schiermeier Q. Sea of dreams. Nature. 2008;456(7221):540-541.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhou WX, Chen KQ. Enhancement of thermoelectric performance by reducing phonon thermal conductance in multiple core-shell nanowires. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7150.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shahabi A, Wang H, Upmanyu M. Shaping van der Waals nanoribbons via torsional constraints: scrolls, folds and supercoils. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7004.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sefton L, Timmer JR, Zhang Y, Béranger F, Cline TW. An extracellular activator of the Drosophila JAK/STAT pathway is a sex-determination signal element. Nature. 2000;405(6789):970-973.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Larose DT. Data Mining Methods and Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Pandey GK, ed. Elucidation of Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants: Functional Genomics Perspectives, Volume 2. Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Christie M. The Box of Vegies. In: Vicars M, McKenna T, eds. Discourse, Power, and Resistance Down Under. Transgressions. SensePublishers; 2013:45-56.

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 Hospital Pharmacy.

Blog post

Andrew D. Will Samsung Reveal The First Foldable Smartphone In 2016? IFLScience. Published September 18, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/could-samsung-be-revealing-first-foldable-smartphone-2016/

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. Airport Capacity: Synopses of Major Studies. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yarijanian AA. Cardborigami’s Strategic Business Plan to Address Urban Homelessness. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Cooper M. Temporary Home For Opera in Houston. New York Times. September 26, 2017:C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Hospital Pharmacy
Abbreviation	Hosp. Pharm.
ISSN (print)	0018-5787
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology Pharmacy

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