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

Lubensky TC. LIQUID CRYSTALS: New Banana Phases. Science. 2000 Jun 23;288(5474):2146–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Osborn TJ, Briffa KR. The spatial extent of 20th-century warmth in the context of the past 1200 years. Science. 2006 Feb 10;311(5762):841–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Riemer J, Bulleid N, Herrmann JM. Disulfide formation in the ER and mitochondria: two solutions to a common process. Science. 2009 Jun 5;324(5932):1284–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Loiseau C, Harrigan RJ, Bichet C, Julliard R, Garnier S, Lendvai AZ, et al. Predictions of avian Plasmodium expansion under climate change. Sci. Rep. 2013 Jan 24;3:1126.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grose M. Construction Law in the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Sarkar FH, editor. MicroRNA Targeted Cancer Therapy. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Shreve M, Fefilatyev S, Bonilla N, Hernandez G, Goldgof D, Sarkar S. View-Invariant Method for Calculating 2D Optical Strain. In: Jiang X, Bellon ORP, Goldgof D, Oishi T, editors. Advances in Depth Image Analysis and Applications: International Workshop, WDIA 2012, Tsukuba, Japan, November 11, 2012, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 42–9.

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

Andrews R. New Satellite Returns First Remarkable Image Of The Arctic [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-eu-radar-satellite-returns-first-remarkable-image-norwegian-arctic/

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. Review of Selected Contracts Awarded by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Sep. Report No.: PSAD-79-103.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vazquez Baeza Y. Statistical Representations Of Microbial Systems [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 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

Barron J. Donated Slides From the Met Get a Second Life, and Viewing. New York Times. 2017 Apr 16;A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lubensky 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lubensky 2000; Osborn and Briffa 2006).

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

Two authors: (Osborn and Briffa 2006)
Three or more authors: (Loiseau et al. 2013)

About the journal

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