How to format your references using the Pharmacological Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pharmacological Reports. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Paul DR. Marerials science. Creating new types of carbon-based membranes. Science 2012;335:413–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lyra W, Kuchner M. Formation of sharp eccentric rings in debris disks with gas but without planets. Nature 2013;499:184–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cira NJ, Benusiglio A, Prakash M. Vapour-mediated sensing and motility in two-component droplets. Nature 2015;519:446–50.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Petricevic L, Kaufmann U, Domig KJ, Kraler M, Marschalek J, Kneifel W, et al. Molecular detection of Lactobacillus species in the neovagina of male-to-female transsexual women. Sci Rep 2014;4:3746.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wilson DA. Forensic Procedures for Boundary and Title Investigation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Rhodes C. Windows Installation and Update Troubleshooting. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sencha AN, Evseeva EV, Mogutov MS, Patrunov YN. Ultrasound Diagnosis of Breast Cancer. In: Evseeva EV, Mogutov MS, Patrunov YN, editors. Breast Ultrasound, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 49–122.

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 Pharmacological Reports.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. Hangover-Free Alcohol Could Replace Normal Booze By 2050. IFLScience 2016.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Federal Research: Observations on the Small Business Innovation Research Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gravano A. Turn-taking and affirmative cue words in task-oriented dialogue. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University, 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

[1]

Walsh MW. How Free Electricity Helped Dig $9 Billion Hole in Puerto Rico. New York Times 2016: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	Pharmacological Reports
Abbreviation	Pharmacol. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1734-1140
Scope	General Medicine Pharmacology