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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Pharmaceutical Innovation. 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. Berg JM. Science policy: Well-funded investigators should receive extra scrutiny. Nature. 2012;489:203.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hazeltine E, Ivry RB. Neuroscience. Can we teach the cerebellum new tricks? Science. 2002;296:1979–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lee CC, Hu Y, Ribbe MW. Vanadium nitrogenase reduces CO. Science. 2010;329:642.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Bai Y, Bi H, Zhuang Y, Liu C, Cai T, Liu X, et al. Production of salidroside in metabolically engineered Escherichia coli. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6640.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Evans GM, Furlong JC. Environmental Biotechnology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

1. Dehne F, Gavrilova M, Sack J-R, Tóth CD, editors. Algorithms and Data Structures: 11th International Symposium, WADS 2009, Banff, Canada, August 21-23, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hühnerfuss H. Basic physicochemical principles of monomolecular sea slicks and crude oil spills. In: Gade M, Hühnerfuss H, Korenowski GM, editors. Marine Surface Films: Chemical Characteristics, Influence on Air-Sea Interactions and Remote Sensing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 21–35.

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 Innovation.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Controversial Home DNA Test Launched In The UK Despite Concerns [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/controversial-home-dna-test-launched-uk-despite-concerns/

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. Federal Software Licenses: Most Agencies Have Reported Planned Actions to Address Our Prior Recommendations on Software License Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Sep. Report No.: GAO-14-835R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Williams RN. Inclusive Classrooms: A Basic Qualitative Study of K-8 Urban Charter School Teachers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 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

1. Dinardo K. David Furnish Pours Champagne for Las Vegas. New York Times. 2014 Aug 17;TR3.

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 Innovation
Abbreviation	J. Pharm. Innov.
ISSN (print)	1872-5120
ISSN (online)	1939-8042
Scope	Drug Discovery Pharmaceutical Science