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]

U. Inan, Atmospheric science. Gamma rays made on Earth, Science 307 (2005) 1054–1055.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F. Miniati, A. Beresnyak, Self-similar energetics in large clusters of galaxies, Nature 523 (2015) 59–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Djuranovic, A. Nahvi, R. Green, A parsimonious model for gene regulation by miRNAs, Science 331 (2011) 550–553.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.Z. Pai, K. Ken Ostrikov, S. Kumar, D.A. Lacoste, I. Levchenko, C.O. Laux, Energy efficiency in nanoscale synthesis using nanosecond plasmas, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1221.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Stidwill, R. Fletcher, Normal Binocular Vision, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

S.F. Mjølsnes, ed., Technology and Practice of Passwords: International Conference on Passwords, PASSWORDS’14, Trondheim, Norway, December 8-10, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Yoshimura, Product Design Optimization, in: K.B. Misra (Ed.), Handbook of Performability Engineering, Springer, London, 2008: pp. 41–56.

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]

S. Luntz, Award-Winning Chemist Works For Free After Funding Cutbacks, IFLScience (2014).

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, Air Traffic Control: Smaller Terminal Systems’ Capacity Requirements Need to Be Defined, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.C. Frost, Quantitative correlational study of communication satisfaction related to organizational proximity and face-to-face communication, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2009.

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. Wagner, So Much for the Arms That Carry the Mets, New York Times (2017) B10.

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