How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Research (JOAPR). 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

[1]

Valentine D. Measure methane to quantify the oil spill. Nature, 465, 421 (2010).

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Reader JS, Joyce GF. A ribozyme composed of only two different nucleotides. Nature, 420, 841–4 (2002).

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lowe SW, Cepero E, Evan G. Intrinsic tumour suppression. Nature, 432, 307–15 (2004).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Lasorella A, Stegmüller J, Guardavaccaro D, Liu G, Carro MS, Rothschild G, de la Torre-Ubieta L, Pagano M, Bonni A, Iavarone A. Degradation of Id2 by the anaphase-promoting complex couples cell cycle exit and axonal growth. Nature, 442, 471–4 (2006).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lewis S. Positive Psychology and Change. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, (2016).

An edited book

[1]

Filbrun AG. Handbook of Cystic Fibrosis. Springer International Publishing, Cham, (2016).

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pule-Meulenberg F. Root-Nodule Bacteria of Legumes Growing in Semi-Arid African Soils and Other Areas of the World. Bacterial Diversity in Sustainable Agriculture. (Maheshwari Dinesh K ed.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 101–30 (2014).

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 Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Research.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. “Amazing Animation Compares The Mass Of Various Objects In The Solar System”.: <https://www.iflscience.com/space/amazing-animation-compares-mass-various-objects-solar-system/>, cited 30 October, 2018.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. FAA Information Technology: Complete Cost Data Not Provided to OMB, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Black DD. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2014.

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

[1]

Kenigsberg B. Starless Dreams, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Research
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Pharm. Res.
ISSN (online)	2348-0335
Scope