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

Kerridge, J.F. Isotopic Variability of Nitrogen in Lunar Regolith. Science 2001, 293, 1947.

A journal article with 2 authors

Robinson, C.M.; Pfeiffer, J.K. Virology. Leaping the Norovirus Hurdle. Science 2014, 346, 700–701.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zahidi, E.M.; Oudghiri-Hassani, H.; McBreen, P.H. Formation of Thermally Stable Alkylidene Layers on a Catalytically Active Surface. Nature 2001, 409, 1023–1026.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Okabe, M.; Imai, T.; Kurusu, M.; Hiromi, Y.; Okano, H. Translational Repression Determines a Neuronal Potential in Drosophila Asymmetric Cell Division. Nature 2001, 411, 94–98.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stamp, M. Information Security; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005; ISBN 9780471744191.

An edited book

Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions: Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Social Sciences; Schneier-Madanes, G., Courel, M.-F., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2010; ISBN 9789048127757.

A chapter in an edited book

Stephens, F.O.; Aigner, K.R. Signs of Cancer: Local and General. In Basics of Oncology; Aigner, K.R., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 53–56 ISBN 9783319233673.

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

Carpineti, A. Giant Planet In Baby Stellar System Hints At Unusual Planet Formation Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/giant-planet-in-baby-stellar-system-hints-at-unusual-planet-formation/ (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 Information Technology: Census Bureau Testing of 2010 Decennial Systems Can Be Strengthened; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2009;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Blair, G.T. The Effects of a League Guided Sportsmanship Program on the Behaviors of Youth Sports Athletes. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 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

Dominus, P.S. Cambio de Vidas: Los Hermanos Perdidos de Bogotá. New York Times 2015, MM34.

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