How to format your references using the Journal of Young Pharmacists citation style

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

Diamond J. Evolution, consequences and future of plant and animal domestication. Nature. 2002;418(6898):700-707.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thursby JG, Thursby MC. Intellectual property. University licensing and the Bayh-Dole Act. Science. 2003;301(5636):1052.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu Q, Clark MS, Palmiter RD. Deciphering a neuronal circuit that mediates appetite. Nature. 2012;483(7391):594-597.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Weichenrieder O, Wild K, Strub K, Cusack S. Structure and assembly of the Alu domain of the mammalian signal recognition particle. Nature. 2000;408(6809):167-173.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Garber R. BIM Design. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Zhou J, Gal-Oz N, Zhang J, Gudes E, eds. Trust Management VIII: 8th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference, IFIPTM 2014, Singapore, July 7-10, 2014. Proceedings. Vol 430. Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Cugiani M. Cenni Sulla Teoria Delle Distribuzioni. In: Bompiani E, ed. Analisi Funzionale. Springer; 2012:199-215.

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 Young Pharmacists.

Blog post

Andrew E. Watch This Poor Hyena Fail Miserably At Sex. IFLScience. August 16, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-hyenas-fail-sex/

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. Passenger Rail Security: Federal Strategy and Enhanced Coordination Needed to Prioritize and Guide Security Efforts. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yamada T. Comparison of Cognitively Diagnostic Adaptive Testing Algorithms. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University; 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

Dobbins J. Making a Living on Airbnb. New York Times. April 7, 2017:RE1.

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 Young Pharmacists
Abbreviation	J. Young Pharm.
ISSN (print)	0975-1483
Scope	General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics