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. Glotzer SC. Materials science. Some Assembly Required. Science. 2004;306:419–20.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bechler ME, ffrench-Constant C. Neuroscience. A new wrap for neuronal activity? Science. 2014;344:480–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Brengues M, Teixeira D, Parker R. Movement of eukaryotic mRNAs between polysomes and cytoplasmic processing bodies. Science. 2005;310:486–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zhang J, Wang C, Yu S, Luo Z, Chen Y, Liu Q, et al. Sevoflurane postconditioning protects rat hearts against ischemia-reperfusion injury via the activation of PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7317.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Pakurar AS, Bigbee JW. Digital Histology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Butz MV, Sigaud O, Pezzulo G, Baldassarre G, editors. Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems: From Brains to Individual and Social Behavior. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Laubenbacher R. Mathematics in the Public Mind: The USA. In: Behrends E, Crato N, Rodrigues JF, editors. Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 47–55.

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. Davis J. Forests Cover 9 Percent More Of Earth Than Thought [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/forests-cover-9-percent-more-of-earth-than-thought/

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. Railroad Safety: FRA Needs to Correct Deficiencies in Reporting Injuries and Accidents. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Apr. Report No.: RCED-89-109.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hill - Carter CN. Effects of teacher mentoring on teacher retention [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2010.

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. Hodara S. The City of Lights, When It Was First Lighted. New York Times. 2016 Jun 4;CT8.

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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