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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Alroy J. A multispecies overkill simulation of the end-Pleistocene megafaunal mass extinction. Science. 2001;292(5523):1893-1896.
A journal article with 2 authors
1.
Dey S, Joshi A. Stability via asynchrony in Drosophila metapopulations with low migration rates. Science. 2006;312(5772):434-436.
A journal article with 3 authors
1.
Roy K, Hunt G, Jablonski D. Phylogenetic conservatism of extinctions in marine bivalves. Science. 2009;325(5941):733-737.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Organ CL, Shedlock AM, Meade A, Pagel M, Edwards SV. Origin of avian genome size and structure in non-avian dinosaurs. Nature. 2007;446(7132):180-184.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Geyer T. Model Predictive Control of High Power Convertersand Industrial Drives. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.
An edited book
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Eckhardt B, ed. Advances in Turbulence XII: Proceedings of the 12th EUROMECH European Turbulence Conference, September 7-10, 2009, Marburg, Germany. Vol 132. Springer; 2009.
A chapter in an edited book
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Giné J, Llibre J. Darboux Integrability and Limit Cycles for a Class of Polynomial Differential Systems. In: Wang D, Zheng Z, eds. Differential Equations with Symbolic Computation. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser; 2005:55-65.

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
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Taub B. The Brain Receptor Responsible For OCD Has Been Identified. IFLScience. Published July 18, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-receptor-responsible-ocd-identified/

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
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Government Accountability Office. Land-Grant College Revenues. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Etchberger JF. The Cis-Regulatory Logic of Gustatory Neuron Development in Caenorhabditis Elegans. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University; 2008.

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
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Baker AL. Push to Rid City of Classrooms That Are Anything but Temporary. New York Times. March 31, 2014:A18.

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 titleHospital Pharmacy
AbbreviationHosp. Pharm.
ISSN (print)0018-5787
ScopePharmacology (medical)
Pharmacology
Pharmacy

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