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. Fung I. Atmospheric science. A hyperventilating biosphere. Science. 2013;341:1075–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Eisen JA, Fraser CM. Phylogenomics: intersection of evolution and genomics. Science. 2003;300:1706–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. McQuibban GA, Saurya S, Freeman M. Mitochondrial membrane remodelling regulated by a conserved rhomboid protease. Nature. 2003;423:537–41.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Tripati A, Backman J, Elderfield H, Ferretti P. Eocene bipolar glaciation associated with global carbon cycle changes. Nature. 2005;436:341–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kimberlin L, zur Linden A, Ruoff L. Atlas of Clinical Imaging and Anatomy of the Equine Head. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

1. Cossy J, editor. Synthesis of Saturated Oxygenated Heterocycles II: 7- to 16-Membered Rings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Iriondo I, Planet S, Socoró J-C, Alías F. Objective and Subjective Evaluation of an Expressive Speech Corpus. In: Chetouani M, Hussain A, Gas B, Milgram M, Zarader J-L, editors. Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing: International Conference on Non-Linear Speech Processing, NOLISP 2007 Paris, France, May 22-25, 2007 Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 86–94.

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. Davis J. Tea Consumption Might Alter Gene Expression In Women, But Not Men. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Internal Controls Over the Automatic Data Processing System Used by the Travelers Insurance Company in Making Medicare Payments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1969 Mar. Report No.: 092722.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Yu H. Parasitism of subterranean termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae: Termitidae) by entomopathogenic nematodes (Nematoda: Steinernematidae: Heterorhabditidae) [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2009.

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. Melnick DJ, Pearl MC, Warfield J. Make Forests Pay. New York Times. 2015 Jan 19;A21.

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