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

Muller-Landau HC. Ecology: plant diversity rooted in pathogens. Nature. 2014 Feb 6;506(7486):44–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pardo M, Nurse P. Equatorial retention of the contractile actin ring by microtubules during cytokinesis. Science. 2003 Jun 6;300(5625):1569–74.

A journal article with 3 authors

Guo D, Knight TE, McCusker JK. Angular momentum conservation in dipolar energy transfer. Science. 2011 Dec 23;334(6063):1684–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gerstenberger MC, Wiemer S, Jones LM, Reasenberg PA. Real-time forecasts of tomorrow’s earthquakes in California. Nature. 2005 May 19;435(7040):328–31.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holt J. The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

Tatsien L. Global Propagation of Regular Nonlinear Hyperbolic Waves. 1st ed. Libin W, editor. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2009. X, 252 p. (Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications; vol. 76).

A chapter in an edited book

Kim S, Baik S, Jo Y, Moon S, Rhee D. Aerial Photograph Image Retrieval Using the MPEG-7 Texture Descriptors. In: Khosla R, Howlett RJ, Jain LC, editors. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 9th International Conference, KES 2005, Melbourne, Australia, September 14-16, 2005, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. p. 31–6. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. 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

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Watch Tony Hawk Ride A Real Hoverboard. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/watch-tony-hawk-ride-real-hoverboard/

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. Aircraft Certification: FAA Can Better Meet Challenges Posed by Advances in Aircraft Technologies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Oct. Report No.: T-RCED-94-53.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Deshotel MW. Enhancing Undergraduate Water Resources Engineering Education Using Data and Modeling Resources Situated in Real-world Ecosystems: Design Principles and Challenges for Scaling and Sustainability [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. 2017 Sep 29;MM18.

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