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

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

Lewis R. Chemistry in context. Nature. 2007 Mar 22;446(7134):464–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Santolík O, Chum J. Planetary science. The origin of plasmaspheric hiss. Science. 2009 May 8;324(5928):729–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith FG, Davies R, Lyne A. Bernard Lovell (1913-2012). Nature. 2012 Aug 30;488(7413):592.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Redl FX, Cho KS, Murray CB, O’Brien S. Three-dimensional binary superlattices of magnetic nanocrystals and semiconductor quantum dots. Nature. 2003 Jun 26;423(6943):968–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pierce DR. Project Scheduling and Management for Construction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Strauss HW, Mariani G, Volterrani D, Larson SM, editors. Nuclear Oncology: Pathophysiology and Clinical Applications. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. XVI, 877 p. 441 illus., 309 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Ermolieva T, Ermoliev Y, Fischer G, Jonas M, Makowski M. Cost Effective and Environmentally Safe Emission Trading Under Uncertainty. In: Marti K, Ermoliev Y, Makowski M, editors. Coping with Uncertainty: Robust Solutions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 79–99. (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems).

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 Pharmacy Practice.

Blog post

Andrew D. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Autistic People Are Three Times More Likely To Have Hallucinations. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/autistic-people-are-three-times-more-likely-to-have-hallucinations/

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. Advance Sheets: Volume 72, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Jan. Report No.: 148654.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garcia M. Perception of Latino students by teachers and counselors in the educational system [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Vecsey G. Yankees and Red Sox Make September Meaningful. New York Times. 2010 Sep 28;B17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Pharmacy Practice
Abbreviation	Int. J. Pharm. Pract.
ISSN (print)	0961-7671
ISSN (online)	2042-7174
Scope	Health Policy Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Pharmaceutical Science Pharmacy