How to format your references using the International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Clinical 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

1. Bourzac K. Collaborations: Mining the motherlodes. Nature. 2015;527:S8-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bercovici D, Ricard Y. Plate tectonics, damage and inheritance. Nature. 2014;508:513–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Papp B, Pál C, Hurst LD. Metabolic network analysis of the causes and evolution of enzyme dispensability in yeast. Nature. 2004;429:661–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Resta A, Leoni T, Barth C, Ranguis A, Becker C, Bruhn T, et al. Atomic structures of silicene layers grown on Ag(111): scanning tunneling microscopy and noncontact atomic force microscopy observations. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2399.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Barbosa P, Berry DL, Kary CS. Insect Histology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Rozenblat C, Melançon G, editors. Methods for Multilevel Analysis and Visualisation of Geographical Networks. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Tóth Z, Kovács L. Pattern Distillation in Grammar Induction Methods. In: Bognár G, Tóth T, editors. Applied Information Science, Engineering and Technology: Selected Topics from the Field of Production Information Engineering and IT for Manufacturing: Theory and Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 47–62.

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 International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Volkswagen Emissions Cover-Up Will Cause 59 Premature Deaths In America [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/volkswagen-emissions-cover-will-cause-59-premature-deaths-america/

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. Telecommunications: Comprehensive Review of U.S. Spectrum Management with Broad Stakeholder Involvement Is Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Jan. Report No.: GAO-03-277.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Miller C. Assembly and analysis of an Sp185/333 gene cluster from the purple sea urchin: Putative evidence for microsatellite-mediated gene and segmental duplication [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington 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. Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. Arts, Briefly; Russian Film Studio Sale Is Delayed Yet Again. New York Times. 2005 Mar 18;E4.

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	International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
Abbreviation	Int. J. Clin. Pharm.
ISSN (print)	2210-7703
ISSN (online)	2210-7711
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmaceutical Science Pharmacology Toxicology Pharmacy