How to format your references using the Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics. 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

Seife C (2000) PARTICLE PHYSICS: Elusive Particle Leaves Telltale Trace. Science 289:527

A journal article with 2 authors

Nesbit J, Bradford M (2007) 2007 visualization challenge. Science 317:1857

A journal article with 3 authors

Parsons T, Ji C, Kirby E (2008) Stress changes from the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and increased hazard in the Sichuan basin. Nature 454:509–510

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Friedman RS, McAlpine MC, Ricketts DS, et al (2005) Nanotechnology: high-speed integrated nanowire circuits. Nature 434:1085

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moloney MG (2015) How to Solve Organic Reaction Mechanisms. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Loménie N, Racoceanu D, Gouaillard A (2012) Advances in Bio-Imaging: From Physics to Signal Understanding Issues: State-of-the-Art and Challenges. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hadi AAR, Wan Daud WMF, Ibrahim NH (2011) The Development of History Educational Game as a Revision Tool for Malaysia School Education. In: Zaman HB, Robinson P, Petrou M, et al (eds) Visual Informatics: Sustaining Research and Innovations: Second International Visual Informatics Conference, IVIC 2011, Selangor, Malaysia, November 9-11, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 39–49

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 Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Forensics Reconstruct The Face Of A Man Brutally Murdered 1,400 Year Ago. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/forensics-reconstruct-the-face-of-a-man-brutally-murdered-1400-year-ago/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1980) Use of Computerized Information for Local and National Health Care Planning Purposes. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gatti DM (2010) Genome-wide analysis of transcriptional regulation in the murine liver. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Wilson M (2017) Jurors See Key Evidence in Chelsea Bombing: Articles on How to Build Bombs. New York Times A21

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 Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
Abbreviation	J. Pharmacokinet. Pharmacodyn.
ISSN (print)	1567-567X
ISSN (online)	1573-8744
Scope	Pharmacology