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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis. 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]

C. Le Quéré, Journal club. An oceanographer marvels at the good timing of shrimp, Nature. 461 (2009) 1031.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B.E. Logan, M. Elimelech, Membrane-based processes for sustainable power generation using water, Nature. 488 (2012) 313–319.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.P. Green, C. Jones, A. Stasch, Stable magnesium(I) compounds with Mg-Mg bonds, Science. 318 (2007) 1754–1757.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Suenaga, M. Tence, C. Mory, C. Colliex, H. Kato, T. Okazaki, H. Shinohara, K. Hirahara, S. Bandow, S. Iijima, Element-selective single atom imaging, Science. 290 (2000) 2280–2282.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Shover, Trading Options in Turbulent Markets, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

B. Wolff, M.-C. Gaudel, A. Feliachi, eds., Unifying Theories of Programming: 4th International Symposium, UTP 2012, Paris, France, August 27-28, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G.-G. Wang, A.H. Gandomi, A.H. Alavi, Study of Lagrangian and Evolutionary Parameters in Krill Herd Algorithm, in: I. Fister, I. Fister Jr. (Eds.), Adaptation and Hybridization in Computational Intelligence, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 111–128.

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 Pharmaceutical Analysis.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Possible Treatment for MERS Revealed, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/possible-treatment-mers-revealed/ (accessed October 30, 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, Aviation Security: Better Planning Needed to Optimize Deployment of Checked Baggage Screening Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Nguyen, A psychoeducational support group for Vietnamese American family caregivers of stroke survivors: Grant writing thesis proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

J. Risen, M. Rosenberg, President Wants Ally to Review U.S. Spy Agencies, New York Times. (2017) A1.

In-text citations

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

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	Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis
Abbreviation	J. Pharm. Anal.
ISSN (print)	2095-1779
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Medicine