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]

Stern P. Neuroscience methods. So you want to learn how to network? Introduction. Science 2009;326:385.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Garcia CM, Ramirez E. Evidence that sensory traps can evolve into honest signals. Nature 2005;434:501–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zhang Z-Y, Sun K-D, Wang S-Q. Enhanced community structure detection in complex networks with partial background information. Sci Rep 2013;3:3241.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Fennimore AM, Yuzvinsky TD, Han W-Q, Fuhrer MS, Cumings J, Zettl A. Rotational actuators based on carbon nanotubes. Nature 2003;424:408–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Chinesta F, Cescotto S, Cueto E, Lorong P. Natural Element Method for the Simulation of Structures and Processes. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Kole C, editor. Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Oilseeds. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Vergara Ó. Principlism and Normative Systems. In: Serna P, Seoane J-A, editors. Bioethical Decision Making and Argumentation, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 57–71.

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]

Andrews R. Mount St Helens Is Rumbling Again, So Should We Be Worried? IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mount-st-helens-is-rumbling-again-so-should-we-be-worried/ (accessed 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Auto Safety: Status of NHTSA’s Redesign of Its Crashworthiness Data System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ghadimian V. Renewable Energy Marketplace. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Cooper M. Pearl Theater to Close. New York Times 2017:C2.

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