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

Leisinger K. Business needs to embrace sustainability targets. Nature. 2015 Dec 10;528(7581):165.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crompton RH, Pataky TC. Anthropology. Stepping out. Science. 2009 Feb 27;323(5918):1174–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Trumbore S, Brando P, Hartmann H. Forest health and global change. Science. 2015 Aug 21;349(6250):814–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang Y, Cao H, Zhang G, Bougouffa S, Lee OO, Al-Suwailem A, et al. Autotrophic microbe metagenomes and metabolic pathways differentiate adjacent Red Sea brine pools. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1748.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fraser J, Simkins BJ. Enterprise Risk Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Ali Babar M, Dingsøyr T, Lago P, van Vliet H, editors. Software Architecture Knowledge Management: Theory and Practice. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. XX, 279 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Fischer M, Meyer S, Oswald M, Claudel P, Karst F. Metabolic Engineering of Monoterpenoid Production in Yeast. In: Bach TJ, Rohmer M, editors. Isoprenoid Synthesis in Plants and Microorganisms: New Concepts and Experimental Approaches. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 65–71.

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

Luntz S. PG-13 Films More Violent Than R-Rated Movies [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/pg13-films-more-violent-than-rrated-movies/

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. Automated Systems: Treasury’s Efforts to Improve Its Payroll and Personnel Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Dec. Report No.: IMTEC-90-4.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alnuaimi AN. The Outside-In Method for Sustainable Design Within the Built Environment Spatial Layers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 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

McKINLEY JC Jr. Plea Deal For Woman In Spitzer Case. New York Times. 2017 Oct 2;A25.

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

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