How to format your references using the Journal of Pharmacy Research citation style

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

Caldecott KW. Cell signaling. The BRCT domain: signaling with friends? Science. 2003;302(5645):579-580.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sawa A, Snyder SH. Genetics. Two genes link two distinct psychoses. Science. 2005;310(5751):1128-1129.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baldini JUL, McDermott F, Fairchild IJ. Structure of the 8200-year cold event revealed by a speleothem trace element record. Science. 2002;296(5576):2203-2206.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhao Y, Dai X, Blackwell HE, Schreiber SL, Chory J. SIR1, an upstream component in auxin signaling identified by chemical genetics. Science. 2003;301(5636):1107-1110.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Attokaran M. Natural Food Flavors and Colorants. Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Huang DS, Li K, Irwin GW, eds. Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics: International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2006, Kunming, China, August 16-19, 2006. Proceedings, Part III. Vol 4115. Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Miradi M, Molenaar AAA, van de Ven MFC. Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Using Artificial Intelligence to Unravel Porous Asphalt Concrete in the Netherlands. In: Gopalakrishnan K, Ceylan H, Attoh-Okine NO, eds. Intelligent and Soft Computing in Infrastructure Systems Engineering: Recent Advances. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer; 2009:107-176.

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 Pharmacy Research.

Blog post

Taub B. Robots May Soon Be Able To Feel Pain. IFLScience. June 1, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robots-may-soon-be-able-feel-pain/

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. NASA Must Reconsider Operations Pricing Policy To Compensate for Cost Growth on the Space Transportation System. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thom RC. Digital Martyrs and Shadowless Assailants: The Projective Shadow’s Emergence in Cyberspace. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2017.

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

Cave D, Kwai I. Drug Trafficker and Australian Obsession Returns Home. New York Times. May 27, 2017:A4.

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 Pharmacy Research
Abbreviation	J. Pharm. Res.
ISSN (print)	0974-6943
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science