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

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

Agarwal VK. “Diamond ceiling” for asian americans. Science. 2000;290(5499):2075a.

A journal article with 2 authors

DeVore NM, Scott EE. Structures of cytochrome P450 17A1 with prostate cancer drugs abiraterone and TOK-001. Nature. 2012;482(7383):116-119.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sasaki M, Takagi M, Okamura Y. A voltage sensor-domain protein is a voltage-gated proton channel. Science. 2006;312(5773):589-592.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Root TL, Price JT, Hall KR, Schneider SH, Rosenzweig C, Pounds JA. Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants. Nature. 2003;421(6918):57-60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lloret J, Shulman G, Love RM. Condition and Health Indicators of Exploited Marine Fishes. John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

Aseeva R. Fire Behavior and Fire Protection in Timber Buildings. (Serkov B, Sivenkov A, eds.). Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Vaquero JM. Solar Eclipses. In: Vaquero JM, ed. The Sun Recorded Through History: Scientific Data Extracted from Historical Documents. Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Springer; 2009:175-216.

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 Pharmacological Sciences.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Astronomers Spot Mysterious Blob From The Ancient Universe. IFLScience. Published March 2, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-spot-mysterious-blob-from-the-ancient-universe/

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. Financial Operations and Activities at Three State-Chartered Agencies in Western Kentucky. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bornmann JW. Becoming Soldiers: Army Basic Training and the Negotiation of Identity. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2009.

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

Sisario B. Another Exclusive Yields No. 1 Album. New York Times. September 13, 2016:C3.

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 Pharmacological Sciences
ISSN (print)	1347-8613
Scope