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

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

Powell K (2004) Destressing in the geekosphere. Nature 427:268–269

A journal article with 2 authors

Redman CW, Sargent IL (2005) Latest advances in understanding preeclampsia. Science 308:1592–1594

A journal article with 3 authors

Marusic I, Mathis R, Hutchins N (2010) Predictive model for wall-bounded turbulent flow. Science 329:193–196

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fedoroff NV, Battisti DS, Beachy RN, et al (2010) Radically rethinking agriculture for the 21st century. Science 327:833–834

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bass F (2013) Guide to the Census. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Naylor PA, Gaubitch ND (eds) (2010) Speech Dereverberation. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Clariana RB (2010) Multi-decision Approaches for Eliciting Knowledge Structure. In: Ifenthaler D, Pirnay-Dummer P, Seel NM (eds) Computer-Based Diagnostics and Systematic Analysis of Knowledge. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 41–59

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 Investigation.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Meet Savannasaurus, Australia’s Newest Titanosaur. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-savannasaurus-australias-newest-titanosaur/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1986) University Funding: Assessing Federal Funding Mechanisms for University Research. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dinneny PN (2017) End of August. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

(nyt) SK (2002) World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Floods Wreak Havoc. New York Times A11

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Powell 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Powell 2004; Redman and Sargent 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Redman and Sargent 2005)
Three or more authors: (Fedoroff et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
Abbreviation	J. Pharm. Investig.
ISSN (print)	2093-5552
ISSN (online)	2093-6214
Scope	Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous) Pharmaceutical Science