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]

Bunz UHF. Chemistry. How are alkynes scrambled? Science 2005;308:216–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wenseleers T, Ratnieks FLW. Enforced altruism in insect societies. Nature 2006;444:50.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Schorlemmer D, Wiemer S, Wyss M. Variations in earthquake-size distribution across different stress regimes. Nature 2005;437:539–42.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhao J, Lee SH, Huss M, Holme P. The network organization of cancer-associated protein complexes in human tissues. Sci Rep 2013;3:1583.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Warren AEA, Lerner RM, Phelps E. Thriving and Spirituality Among Youth. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Muhlbauer V, Chrisler JC, editors. Women Over 50: Psychological Perspectives. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dąbrowski M, Drabik M, Trzaska M, Subieta K. Prototype of Object-Oriented Declarative Workflows. In: Nguyen NT, Kim C-G, Janiak A, editors. Intelligent Information and Database Systems: Third International Conference, ACIIDS 2011, Daegu, Korea, April 20-22, 2011, Proceedings, Part I, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 47–56.

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]

Andrews R. This Ancient Bug Within A Lizard Within A Snake Will Blow Your Mind. IFLScience 2016.

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. School Facilities: States’ Financial and Technical Support Varies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Grandon J. The Distribution of Apiaceae in Lafayette and St. Martin Parishes. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2015.

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]

Sisario B. Another Failed Festival Puts Industry on Edge. New York Times 2017:B1.

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)