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. Alter H. Baruch Blumberg (1925-2011). Nature. 2011;473:155.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hoveyda AH, Zhugralin AR. The remarkable metal-catalysed olefin metathesis reaction. Nature. 2007;450:243–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Djuranovic S, Nahvi A, Green R. miRNA-mediated gene silencing by translational repression followed by mRNA deadenylation and decay. Science. 2012;336:237–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Okada C, Yamashita E, Lee SJ, Shibata S, Katahira J, Nakagawa A, et al. A high-resolution structure of the pre-microRNA nuclear export machinery. Science. 2009;326:1275–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Horrocks G. Greek. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

1. Losada DE, Fernández-Luna JM, editors. Advances in Information Retrieval: 27th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2005, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, March 21-23, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gupta SK, Bencurova E, Srivastava M, Pahlavan P, Balkenhol J, Dandekar T. Improving Re-annotation of Annotated Eukaryotic Genomes. In: Wong K-C, editor. Big Data Analytics in Genomics. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 171–95.

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. Andrew E. When Should You Take Antibiotics? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/when-should-you-take-antibiotics/

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. Space Science: Causes and Impacts of Cutbacks to NASA’s Outer Solar System Exploration Missions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Dec. Report No.: NSIAD-94-24.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Rosie SA. Examining stakeholder perceptions of educational success in the Malagasy public education system [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2012.

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. Chavez L. American Dreams, Foreign Flags. New York Times. 2006 Mar 30;A25.

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

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