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]

Gewin V. Biologist aims to ease the pain for entrepreneurs. Nature 2006;440:738–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Trinkle DR, Woodward C. The chemistry of deformation: how solutes soften pure metals. Science 2005;310:1665–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kanai T, Minemoto S, Sakai H. Quantum interference during high-order harmonic generation from aligned molecules. Nature 2005;435:470–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Qiu M, Sun K, Jin J, Gao B, Yan Y, Han L, et al. Properties of the plant- and manure-derived biochars and their sorption of dibutyl phthalate and phenanthrene. Sci Rep 2014;4:5295.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ray Chaudhuri N, Chaudhuri B, Majumder R, Yazdani A. Multi-Terminal Direct-Current Grids. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Rajendram R, Preedy VR, Patel VB, editors. Branched Chain Amino Acids in Clinical Nutrition: Volume 1. New York, NY: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Haimes R. MOSS: Multiple Orthogonal Strand System. In: Sarrate J, Staten M, editors. Proceedings of the 22nd International Meshing Roundtable, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 75–91.

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]

Hamilton K. Why Running Could Keep You Awake At Night. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-running-could-keep-you-awake-at-night/ (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. Nextgen Air Transportation System: Mechanisms for Collaboration and Technology Transfer Could Be Enhanced to More Fully Leverage Partner Agency and Industry Resources. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Warwick-Smith KM. Remembering Prudence: Tracking the Iconography of a Cardinal Virtue to Her Resurgence in Depth Psychology. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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]

Sisario B. ‘Fake’ Stars On Spotify? The Reality May Differ. New York Times 2017:B1.

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