How to format your references using the Pharmacia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pharmacia. 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

Hurst JK (2010) Chemistry. In pursuit of water oxidation catalysts for solar fuel production. Science (New York, N.Y.) 328: 315–316.

A journal article with 2 authors

Holowka S, Petitto LA (2002) Left hemisphere cerebral specialization for babies while babbling. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297: 1515.

A journal article with 3 authors

LaRiviere FJ, Wolfson AD, Uhlenbeck OC (2001) Uniform binding of aminoacyl-tRNAs to elongation factor Tu by thermodynamic compensation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294: 165–168.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kumatani A, Li Y, Darmawan P, Minari T, Tsukagoshi K (2013) On practical charge injection at the metal/organic semiconductor interface. Scientific reports 3: 1026.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

French BA (2016) Chronicles Through the Centuries. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Wang J (Ed.) (2014) 296 Proceedings of the First Symposium on Aviation Maintenance and Management-Volume I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XV, 654 p. 390 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Alperson-Afil N, Goren-Inbar N (2016) Scarce but Significant: The Limestone Component of the Acheulean Site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel. In: Haidle MN, Conard NJ, Bolus M (Eds), The Nature of Culture: Based on an Interdisciplinary Symposium ‘The Nature of Culture’, Tübingen, Germany. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 41–56.

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 Pharmacia.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Misshaped Fossil Plankton Signal Mass Extinctions. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/deformed-plankton-signal-mass-extinctions/ (October 30, 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 (1996) Federal Employers’ Liability Act: Issues Associated With Changing How Railroad Work-Related Injuries Are Compensated. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Slaughter RA (2017) Tradition and Progress: California Fire Technology Directors Beliefs and Values. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University

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

McKINLEY JC Jr, Baker AL (2017) Trial to Open in Case That Highlights Complaints About Justice System. New York Times: A21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Hurst 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Holowka and Petitto 2002, Hurst 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Holowka and Petitto 2002)
Three or more authors: (Kumatani et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pharmacia
ISSN (print)	0428-0296
ISSN (online)	2603-557X
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