How to format your references using the Le Pharmacien Hospitalier et Clinicien citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Le Pharmacien Hospitalier et Clinicien. 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

[1]

Besansky NJ. Malaria: How vector mosquitoes beat the heat. Nature 2014;516:334–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Melnick JG, Parkin G. Cleaving mercury-alkyl bonds: a functional model for mercury detoxification by MerB. Science 2007;317:225–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Polat EO, Balcı O, Kocabas C. Graphene based flexible electrochromic devices. Sci Rep 2014;4:6484.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Gibson MC, Patel AB, Nagpal R, Perrimon N. The emergence of geometric order in proliferating metazoan epithelia. Nature 2006;442:1038–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Taber DF. Organic Synthesis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Liew K-M, Shen H, See S, Cai W, Fan P, Horiguchi S, editors. Parallel and Distributed Computing: Applications and Technologies: 5th International Conference, PDCAT 2004, Singapore, December 8-10, 2004. Proceedings. vol. 3320. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pieschl S, Stahl E, Bromme R. Adaptation to Context as Core Component of Self-Regulated Learning: The Example of Complexity and Epistemic Beliefs. In: Azevedo R, Aleven V, editors. International Handbook of Metacognition and Learning Technologies, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 53–65.

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 Le Pharmacien Hospitalier et Clinicien.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. Why You Should Never Squash A Spider. IFLScience 2015.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. St. Louis Postal Data Center’s Administration of Accounts Payable. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Armani MD. Nucleic acid extraction and detection across two-dimensional tissue samples. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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

[1]

Gustines GG. A World Where Only Black People Have Superpowers. New York Times 2017:C5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Le Pharmacien Hospitalier et Clinicien
ISSN (print)	2211-1042
Scope	Pharmacology (medical)