How to format your references using the In Silico Pharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for In Silico Pharmacology. 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

Macilwain C. Critics blast US missile defence system as flawed. Nature. 2000 Apr 20;404(6780):799.

A journal article with 2 authors

Simon J, Greiner M. Condensed-matter physics: a duo of graphene mimics. Nature. 2012 Mar 14;483(7389):282–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ackman JB, Burbridge TJ, Crair MC. Retinal waves coordinate patterned activity throughout the developing visual system. Nature. 2012 Oct 11;490(7419):219–25.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Huang Y-K, Chen S-C, Ho Y-H, Lin C-Y, Lin M-F. Feature-rich magnetic quantization in sliding bilayer graphenes. Sci. Rep. 2014 Dec 17;4:7509.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Williams AE. Immunology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Kembayev Z, editor. Legal Aspects of the Regional Integration Processes in the Post-Soviet Area. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Cao D. Legal Speech Acts as Intersubjective Communicative Action. In: Werner W, Cao D, editors. Interpretation, Law and the Construction of Meaning: Collected Papers on Legal Interpretation in Theory, Adjudication and Political Practice. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007. p. 65–82.

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 In Silico Pharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Incredible Photographs Show The “Dark Side” Of The Moon From More Than A Million Miles Away. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Transportation Accessibility: Lack of Data and Limited Enforcement Options Limit Federal Oversight. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Sep. Report No.: GAO-07-1126.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Poyaoan-Linzaga MR. The effects of patient communication in early intervention for falls among the Medicare patients [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Kanter J, Goldman R. Bomb Blast Is Set Off At Train Hub In Brussels. New York Times. 2017 Jun 20;A5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain 2000; Simon and Greiner 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Simon and Greiner 2012)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	In Silico Pharmacology
Abbreviation	In Silico Pharmacol.
ISSN (online)	2193-9616
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