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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 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	Download the output style file
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

Begley CG. Six red flags for suspect work. Nature. 2013;497(7450):433-434.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roesner S, Aggarwal VK. Organic chemistry: reactions at the end of a tether. Nature. 2012;487(7405):48-49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Paredez AR, Somerville CR, Ehrhardt DW. Visualization of cellulose synthase demonstrates functional association with microtubules. Science. 2006;312(5779):1491-1495.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rossiter SJ, Ransome RD, Faulkes CG, Le Comber SC, Jones G. Mate fidelity and intra-lineage polygyny in greater horseshoe bats. Nature. 2005;437(7057):408-411.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMaster MC. Buying and Selling Laboratory Instruments. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Sá JM de, Alexandre LA, Duch W, Mandic D, eds. Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2007: 17th International Conference, Porto, Portugal, September 9-13, 2007, Proceedings, Part I. Vol 4668. Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Klumpp J, Loessner MJ. Detection of Bacteria with Bioluminescent Reporter Bacteriophage. In: Thouand G, Marks R, eds. Bioluminescence: Fundamentals and Applications in Biotechnology - Volume 1. Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology. Springer; 2014:155-171.

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 Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew E. Study Finds Gamers Have Greater Cognitive Function And More Grey Matter. IFLScience.

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. Inadequacies in Data Processing Planning in the Department of the Interior. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dasari RA. Automatic Driving System by Recognizing Road Signs Using Digital Image Processing. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2016.

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

George N. Invisibly Black. New York Times. January 13, 2017:BR14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Pharm. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0022-3549
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science