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

Palmer AR. Symmetry breaking and the evolution of development. Science. 2004 Oct 29;306(5697):828–33.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith MM, Johanson Z. Separate evolutionary origins of teeth from evidence in fossil jawed vertebrates. Science. 2003 Feb 21;299(5610):1235–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coulthard G, Erb W, Aggarwal VK. Stereocontrolled organocatalytic synthesis of prostaglandin PGF2α in seven steps. Nature. 2012 Sep 13;489(7415):278–81.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shi Y, Wang Y, Wong JI, Tan AYS, Hsu CL, Li LJ, et al. Self-assembly of hierarchical MoSx/CNT nanocomposites (2<x<3): towards high performance anode materials for lithium ion batteries. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2169.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Terré M, Pischella M, Vivier E. Wireless Telecommunication Systems. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Hakeem KR, Akhtar MS, editors. Plant, Soil and Microbes: Volume 2: Mechanisms and Molecular Interactions. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XIV, 438 p. 37 illus., 24 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Drews G, Krippeit-Drews P, Düfer M. Electrophysiology of Islet Cells. In: Islam MS, editor. Islets of Langerhans. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015. p. 249–303.

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 E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Tasty Treat: How We Showed Fat To Be The Sixth Taste. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/tasty-treat-how-we-showed-fat-be-sixth-taste/

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. Public Transit: Transit Agencies’ Use of Contracting to Provide Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Sep. Report No.: GAO-13-782.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mayberry DS. Total Relaxation Center, LLC [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Chow AR, Paulson M. ‘The Glass Menagerie’ To Close Early. New York Times. 2017 May 9;C3.

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