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

Hvidberg CS (2000) When Greenland ice melts. Nature 404:551–552.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang Z-G, and Zhang C-T (2013) A proposal for a novel impact factor as an alternative to the JCR impact factor. Sci Rep 3:3410.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falkenburger BH, Barstow KL, and Mintz IM (2001) Dendrodendritic inhibition through reversal of dopamine transport. Science 293:2465–2470.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Stallard T, Miller S, Melin H, Lystrup M, Cowley SWH, Bunce EJ, Achilleos N, and Dougherty M (2008) Jovian-like aurorae on Saturn. Nature 453:1083–1085.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tran J (2010) The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Wu W, and Yu H-S (eds) (2006) Modern Trends in Geomechanics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Vaclavik VA, and Christian EW (2014) Starches in Food, in Essentials of Food Science (Christian EW ed) pp 39–51, Springer, New York, NY.

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

Andrew E (2015) This Exoskeleton Allows Paralyzed People To Walk, 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 (2015) Federal Research: DOE Is Addressing Invention Disclosure and Other Challenges but Needs a Plan to Guide Data Management Improvements, 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

Kamis RP (2013) The Relationship between Expanded Concepts of Self and Well-Being, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Sack K (2011) Deadly Twisters Renew Questions About Pressure on Emergency Budgets.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hvidberg, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hvidberg, 2000; Yang and Zhang, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Yang and Zhang, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Stallard et al., 2008)

About the journal

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