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

Kaiser, J. PLANT GENETICS:From Genome to Functional Genomics. Science 2000, 288, 1715a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Winckler, G.; Fischer, H. 30,000 Years of Cosmic Dust in Antarctic Ice. Science 2006, 313, 491.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gridi-Papp, M.; Rand, A.S.; Ryan, M.J. Animal Communication: Complex Call Production in the Túngara Frog. Nature 2006, 441, 38.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wessberg, J.; Stambaugh, C.R.; Kralik, J.D.; Beck, P.D.; Laubach, M.; Chapin, J.K.; Kim, J.; Biggs, S.J.; Srinivasan, M.A.; Nicolelis, M.A. Real-Time Prediction of Hand Trajectory by Ensembles of Cortical Neurons in Primates. Nature 2000, 408, 361–365.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Welsh, A.H. Aspects of Statistical Inference: Welsh/Aspects; Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 1996; ISBN 9781118165423.

An edited book

Interventional Critical Care: A Manual for Advanced Care Practitioners; Taylor, D.A., Sherry, S.P., Sing, R.F., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; ISBN 9783319252841.

A chapter in an edited book

Sharapov, V.; Sotula, Z.; Kunickaya, L. Hydroacoustic Transducers. In Piezo-Electric Electro-Acoustic Transducers; Sotula, Z., Kunickaya, L., Eds.; Microtechnology and MEMS; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp. 57–71 ISBN 9783319011974.

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. Scientist Ejected From Classical Concert For Crowdsurfing (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 Business Systems Modernization: DOD Continues to Improve Institutional Approach, but Further Steps Needed; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2006;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson, A.S. Fatigue Behavior and Microstructure of Direct Laser Deposited Inconel 718 Alloy. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University: Mississippi State, MS, 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

Nir, S.M. Behind Perfect Nails, Ailing Salon Workers. New York Times 2015, A1.

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