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

Struhl K. Gene regulation. A paradigm for precision. Science. 2001 Aug 10;293(5532):1054–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Georgiou G, Masip L. Biochemistry. An overoxidation journey with a return ticket. Science. 2003 Apr 25;300(5619):592–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palenzuela C, Lehner L, Liebling SL. Dual jets from binary black holes. Science. 2010 Aug 20;329(5994):927–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

El-Khamisy SF, Saifi GM, Weinfeld M, Johansson F, Helleday T, Lupski JR, et al. Defective DNA single-strand break repair in spinocerebellar ataxia with axonal neuropathy-1. Nature. 2005 Mar 3;434(7029):108–13.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ohshima H. Biophysical Chemistry of Biointerfaces. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Cao T, Lim EP, Zhou ZH, Ho TB, Cheung D, Motoda H, editors. Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 19th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2015, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, May 19-22, 2015, Proceedings, Part I. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. XXX, 763 p. 224 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 9077).

A chapter in an edited book

Ganghishetti P, Vadlamani R. Association Rule Mining via Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization. In: Murty MN, He X, Chillarige RR, Weng P, editors. Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence: 8th International Workshop, MIWAI 2014, Bangalore, India, December 8-10, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 35–46. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Davis J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017. Ban On Testing Vaccines On Captive Apes Threatens Their Wild Counterparts.

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. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’s Professional Standards Review Organization Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Jun. Report No.: 109829.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Diggs BJ. African American Online Doctor of Management Students’ Perceptions of Dissertation Writing and Support: Narrative Inquiry [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 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

Pear R, Kelly K. Trump Concedes Health Overhaul Is a Thorny Task. New York Times. 2017 Feb 28;A1.

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