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

Norman MR. Physics. Chasing arcs in cuprate superconductors. Science. 2009;325(5944):1080-1081.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zimmerman AW, Connors SL. Neuroscience. Could autism be treated prenatally? Science. 2014;343(6171):620-621.

A journal article with 3 authors

Archibald JD, Averianov AO, Ekdale EG. Late Cretaceous relatives of rabbits, rodents, and other extant eutherian mammals. Nature. 2001;414(6859):62-65.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bode M, Heide M, von Bergmann K, et al. Chiral magnetic order at surfaces driven by inversion asymmetry. Nature. 2007;447(7141):190-193.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zarowski CJ. An Introduction to Numerical Analysis for Electrical and Computer Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

Bussmann-Holder A, Keller H, eds. High Tc Superconductors and Related Transition Metal Oxides: Special Contributions in Honor of K. Alex Müller on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday. Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Clemente P, Lasagna M, Dino GA, De Luca DA. Comparison of Different Methods for Detecting Irrigation Canals Leakage. In: Lollino G, Arattano M, Rinaldi M, Giustolisi O, Marechal JC, Grant GE, eds. Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 3: River Basins, Reservoir Sedimentation and Water Resources. Springer International Publishing; 2015:23-26.

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

Luntz S. Beautiful Glowing Beaches Look Like Something From Another World. 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. Federal Communications Commission: Implementation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Aguilar M. Latina Single Mothers: Perspectives on Parenting. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Wagner J. Mets Collapse Again Under the Weight of Their Pitching Dysfunction. New York Times. May 14, 2017:SP3.

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

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