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

Beyea J (2010) Science and society. The smart electricity grid and scientific research. Science 328:979–980.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jung J, and Bonini N (2007) CREB-binding protein modulates repeat instability in a Drosophila model for polyQ disease. Science 315:1857–1859.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aubert J, Finlay CC, and Fournier A (2013) Bottom-up control of geomagnetic secular variation by the Earth’s inner core. Nature 502:219–223.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Hatsugai N, Kuroyanagi M, Yamada K, Meshi T, Tsuda S, Kondo M, Nishimura M, and Hara-Nishimura I (2004) A plant vacuolar protease, VPE, mediates virus-induced hypersensitive cell death. Science 305:855–858.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Soustelle M (2011) An Introduction to Chemical Kinetics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Badouel E (2015) Petri Net Synthesis, 1st ed. 2015 (Bernardinello L, and Darondeau P eds), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Graf F, te Kamp L, Auer M, Acharya MS, and Wu W (2015) Soil Aggregate Stability in Eco-engineering: Comparison of Field and Laboratory Data with an Outlook on a New Modelling Approach, in Recent Advances in Modeling Landslides and Debris Flows (Wu W ed) pp 29–47, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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) Who Was The Taung Child?, 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 (1992) Intelligence, 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

Matheny AL (2009) Home gardener preferences, perceptions, knowledge and behaviors associated with pest management strategies and information acquisition, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Shpigel B (2017) Rangers Unearth Vigor in a Clinching Win.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Beyea, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Jung and Bonini, 2007; Beyea, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Jung and Bonini, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Hatsugai et al., 2004)

About the journal

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