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

Walsh RW. Astronomy. How is the solar corona heated? Science. 2005 Jan 7;307(5706):51–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cui Y, Lieber CM. Functional nanoscale electronic devices assembled using silicon nanowire building blocks. Science. 2001 Feb 2;291(5505):851–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yozwiak NL, Schaffner SF, Sabeti PC. Data sharing: Make outbreak research open access. Nature. 2015 Feb 26;518(7540):477–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gittins DI, Bethell D, Schiffrin DJ, Nichols RJ. A nanometre-scale electronic switch consisting of a metal cluster and redox-addressable groups. Nature. 2000 Nov 2;408(6808):67–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kanel GC. Pathology of Liver Diseases. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Pentikousis K, Agüero R, García-Arranz M, Papavassiliou S, editors. Mobile Networks and Management: Second International ICST Conference, MONAMI 2010, Santander, Spain, September 22-24, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. XIV, 356 p. 175 illus., 118 illus. in color. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; vol. 68).

A chapter in an edited book

Kim BW, Kim BG. Exclusive Region Based Scheduling for MB-OFDM UWB Using Hidden Pilot Sequences. In: Park JJ (jong H, Zomaya A, Jeong HY, Obaidat M, editors. Frontier and Innovation in Future Computing and Communications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 29–35. (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering).

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. What Would Happen If The Earth Got Sucked Into A Black Hole? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Implementation of P.L. 94-142 as It Relates to Handicapped Delinquents in the District of Columbia. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985 Sep. Report No.: 127876.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yahil RJ. The role of interleukin-19 in interleukin-10 production by regulatory macrophages [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2010.

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

Kelly C. One Talk Show That Will Never Book a Kardashian. New York Times. 2013 Oct 6;A25B.

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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