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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Faubert J. Professional athletes have extraordinary skills for rapidly learning complex and neutral dynamic visual scenes. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1154.

A journal article with 2 authors

Borgdorff AJ, Choquet D. Regulation of AMPA receptor lateral movements. Nature. 2002;417(6889):649-653.

A journal article with 3 authors

Obayashi M, Yoshimitsu J, Fukao Y. Tearing of stagnant slab. Science. 2009;324(5931):1173-1175.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ishii K, Ogiyama Y, Chikashige Y, et al. Heterochromatin integrity affects chromosome reorganization after centromere dysfunction. Science. 2008;321(5892):1088-1091.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Toptygin IN. Electromagnetic Phenomena in Matter. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2015.

An edited book

Fugelsang KC, Edwards CG, eds. Wine Microbiology: Practical Applications and Procedures. Second edition. Springer US; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Parry G, Purchase V, Mills J. Complexity Management. In: Ng I, Parry G, Wild P, McFarlane D, Tasker P, eds. Complex Engineering Service Systems: Concepts and Research. Decision Engineering. Springer; 2011:67-86.

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

Fang J. Bird Genomes Contain Ancient Traces Of Modern Human Parasites. IFLScience. April 27, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bird-genomes-contain-ancient-traces-modern-human-parasites/

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. Truck Transport: Little Is Known About Hauling Garbage and Food in the Same Vehicles. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Valenzuela J. Medicare Advantage’s Population Make-up and Its Impact on the Future of Medicare Financing. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Dynarski S. A Divide That Goes Beyond Lunch. New York Times. August 12, 2016:BU6.

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