How to format your references using the Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice. 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. VanNimwegen R. Award-winning commitment. Nature. 2007;447:610.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Benkovic SJ, Hammes-Schiffer S. Biochemistry. Enzyme motions inside and out. Science. 2006;312:208–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sibanda BL, Chirgadze DY, Blundell TL. Crystal structure of DNA-PKcs reveals a large open-ring cradle comprised of HEAT repeats. Nature. 2010;463:118–21.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Pecho-Vrieseling E, Sigrist M, Yoshida Y, Jessell TM, Arber S. Specificity of sensory-motor connections encoded by Sema3e-Plxnd1 recognition. Nature. 2009;459:842–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Antonucci D. The Cyber Risk Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. Cho Z-H, editor. 7.0 Tesla MRI Brain Atlas: In-vivo Atlas with Cryomacrotome Correlation. 2nd ed. 2015. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Thulstrup AW, Casse T, Nielsen TT. The Push for Plantations: Drivers, Rationales and Social Vulnerability in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. In: Bruun O, Casse T, editors. On the Frontiers of Climate and Environmental Change: Vulnerabilities and Adaptations in Central Vietnam. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 71–89.

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 Policy and Practice.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Stephen Hawking Shows How Information Is Not Lost In Black Holes [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/stephen-hawking-shows-how-information-is-not-lost-in-black-holes/

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. ADP Modernization: IRS’ Tax System Redesign Progress and Plans for the Future. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Apr. Report No.: IMTEC-88-23BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lee MY-L. The intellectual origins of Lin Yutang’s cultural internationalism, 1928–1938 [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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. Medellín RA, Melnick DJ, Pearl MC. Protect Our Bats. New York Times. 2014 May 11;A23.

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 Policy and Practice
Abbreviation	J. Pharm. Policy Pract.
ISSN (online)	2052-3211
Scope	Health Policy General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics