How to format your references using the Pharmaceutics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pharmaceutics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Bernstein, R. Into the Wilderness. Science 2015, 347, 1282.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maher, B.A.; Dennis, P.F. Evidence against Dust-Mediated Control of Glacial-Interglacial Changes in Atmospheric CO2. Nature 2001, 411, 176–180.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chesler, E.J.; Rodriguez-Zas, S.L.; Mogil, J.S. In Silico Mapping of Mouse Quantitative Trait Loci. Science 2001, 294, 2423.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, W.; Jawerth, L.M.; Sparks, E.A.; Falvo, M.R.; Hantgan, R.R.; Superfine, R.; Lord, S.T.; Guthold, M. Fibrin Fibers Have Extraordinary Extensibility and Elasticity. Science 2006, 313, 634.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Owen, J.S.; Fiedler-Kelly, J. Introduction to Population Pharmacokinetic / Pharmacodynamic Analysis with Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, New Jersey, 2014; ISBN 9781118784860.

An edited book

Ritual and the Moral Life: Reclaiming the Tradition; Solomon, D., Fan, R., Lo, P.-C., Eds.; Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2012; Vol. 21; ISBN 9789400727557.

A chapter in an edited book

Cazzulani, G.; Ferrari, M.; Resta, F.; Ripamonti, F. A Numerical and Experimental Analysis for the Active Vibration Control of a Concrete Placing Boom. In Vibration and Structural Acoustics Analysis: Current Research and Related Technologies; Vasques, C.M.A., Dias Rodrigues, J., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2011; pp. 79–97 ISBN 9789400717022.

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 Pharmaceutics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Why You Should Never Use Hand Sanitizer Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-you-should-stop-using-hand-sanitizer-immediately/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Evaluation of NASA Compliance With Congressional Reprogramming Requirements; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1982;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schwarcz-Besson, P. The Field in Psychoanalytic Research Methodology. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute: Carpinteria, CA, 2017.

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

de la MERCED, M.J. Blue Apron, Fast-Growing Pioneer in Delivering Meal Kits, Files for Public Offering. New York Times 2017, B4.

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	Pharmaceutics
Abbreviation	Pharmaceutics
ISSN (online)	1999-4923
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science