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

Isaacs JT. Cancer. Prostate cancer takes nerve. Science. 2013;341(6142):134-135.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ju T, Cummings RD. Protein glycosylation: chaperone mutation in Tn syndrome. Nature. 2005;437(7063):1252.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu L, Leung ELH, Tian X. Perspective: The clinical trial barriers. Nature. 2011;480(7378):S100.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Naruse M, Kim SJ, Aono M, Hori H, Ohtsu M. Chaotic oscillation and random-number generation based on nanoscale optical-energy transfer. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6039.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Phelan J. Reading the American Novel 1920-2010. John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Xi B. Optimization of Solid Waste Conversion Process and Risk Control of Groundwater Pollution. 1st ed. 2016. (Jiang Y, Li M, Yang Y, Huang C, eds.). Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Moskowitz HS, Grandis JR. Oncogenomics/Proteomics of Head and Neck Cancers. In: Bernier J, ed. Head and Neck Cancer: Multimodality Management. Springer; 2011:81-91.

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

Andrew D. There’s No Such Thing As An Alpha Male. 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. The Department of Education’s Actions To Collect Defaulted Student Loans. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Steigner T. A Study of Cross -Border Takeovers: Examining the Impact of National Culture on Internalization Benefits, and the Implications of Early versus Late -Mover Status for Bidders and Their Rivals. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida; 2008.

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

Pilon M. A Lawyer by Day, a Runner Always. New York Times. October 30, 2014:B18.

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