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

Fairclough, S. Physiological Data Must Remain Confidential. Nature 2014, 505, 263.

A journal article with 2 authors

Feachem, R.G.A.; Medlin, C.A. Health Is Wealth. Nature 2002, 417, 695.

A journal article with 3 authors

Guilderson, T.P.; Reimer, P.J.; Brown, T.A. Geoscience. The Boon and Bane of Radiocarbon Dating. Science 2005, 307, 362–364.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Douce, T.; Eckstein, A.; Walborn, S.P.; Khoury, A.Z.; Ducci, S.; Keller, A.; Coudreau, T.; Milman, P. Direct Measurement of the Biphoton Wigner Function through Two-Photon Interference. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 3530.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwartz, R. Rethinking Pragmatism; Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2012; ISBN 9781118253687.

An edited book

Computational Intelligence: Revised and Selected Papers of the International Joint Conference, IJCCI 2013, Vilamoura, Portugal, September 20-22, 2013; Madani, K., Dourado, A., Rosa, A., Filipe, J., Kacprzyk, J., Eds.; Studies in Computational Intelligence; 1st ed. 2016.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; Vol. 613; ISBN 9783319233918.

A chapter in an edited book

AbuZeina, D.; Elshafei, M. Cross-Word Pronunciation Variations. In Cross-Word Modeling for Arabic Speech Recognition; Elshafei, M., Ed.; SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2012; pp. 35–46 ISBN 9781461412120.

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. Extremely Large Telescopes Will Add More Firepower To Search The Cosmos (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 Survey of Workforce Investment Board Directors on the Use of Individual Training Accounts, an E-Supplement to GAO-05-650; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2005;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hensley, A.L. Gender, Personality, and Coping: Unraveling Gender in Military Post -Deployment Physical and Mental Wellness. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University: Minneapolis, MN, 2009.

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

Pennington, B.; Belson, K. Panthers’ Newton Stands Out in a Quieter Week of Player Protests. New York Times 2017, D7.

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