How to format your references using the Pharmacological Reviews citation style

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

Caldecott KW (2014) Molecular biology. Ribose--an internal threat to DNA. Science 343:260–261.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baconguis I, and Gouaux E (2012) Structural plasticity and dynamic selectivity of acid-sensing ion channel-spider toxin complexes. Nature 489:400–405.

A journal article with 3 authors

Friis EM, Pedersen KR, and Crane PR (2001) Fossil evidence of water lilies (Nymphaeales) in the Early Cretaceous. Nature 410:357–360.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Lilley MD, Butterfield DA, Lupton JE, and Olson EJ (2003) Magmatic events can produce rapid changes in hydrothermal vent chemistry. Nature 422:878–881.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hampel FR, Ronchetti EM, Rousseeuw PJ, and Stahel WA (2005) Robust Statistics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Schmidt AU, Russello G, Krontiris I, and Lian S (eds) (2012) Security and Privacy in Mobile Information and Communication Systems: 4th International Conference, MobiSec 2012, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, June 25-26, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Chippendale P, and Lanz O (2008) Optimised Meeting Recording and Annotation Using Real-Time Video Analysis, in Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction: 5th International Workshop, MLMI 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 8-10, 2008. Proceedings (Popescu-Belis A, and Stiefelhagen R eds) pp 50–61, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) The Builders Of Stonehenge Feasted On Barbecue Beef And Pork, IFLScience.

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 (2002) Highway Financing: Factors Affecting Highway Trust Fund Revenues, 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

Nagarajah BA (2017) The influence of professional training and personal factors on technostress: A correlational study, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Wagner J (2016) Patchwork Mets Give Their Playoff Hopes a Boost.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Caldecott, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Baconguis and Gouaux, 2012; Caldecott, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Baconguis and Gouaux, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Lilley et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pharmacological Reviews
Abbreviation	Pharmacol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0031-6997
ISSN (online)	1521-0081
Scope	Molecular Medicine Pharmacology