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]

Savage N. Born in the blood. Nature 2014;515:S158-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Grandi P, Palumbo GGC. Jet and accretion-disk emission untangled in 3C 273. Science 2004;306:998–1002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chou SY, Keimel C, Gu J. Ultrafast and direct imprint of nanostructures in silicon. Nature 2002;417:835–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bailey JV, Joye SB, Kalanetra KM, Flood BE, Corsetti FA. Evidence of giant sulphur bacteria in Neoproterozoic phosphorites. Nature 2007;445:198–201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Silvia JE. Dynamic Economic Decision Making. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Zhang L, Chan M, editors. Tunneling Field Effect Transistor Technology. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Nicosevici T, Garcia R. Online 3D Model Simplification. In: Garcia R, editor. Efficient 3D Scene Modeling and Mosaicing, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 127–42.

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]

Fang J. The Moon Might Still Have Partly Molten Insides. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/moon-might-still-have-partly-molten-insides/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Implementation of OMB Circular No. A-76 at Science Agencies. Washington, DC: 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

[1]

Rivers M. Bridging the knowledge gap between the Baby Boomers and the multigenerations. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2012.

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]

Gordon MR. U.S. Fighter Downs Drone Over Syria. New York Times 2017:A8.

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)