How to format your references using the Pharmacology citation style

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

Rowley JD. Genetics. A story of swapped ends. Science. 2013 Jun;340(6139):1412–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knobel RG, Cleland AN. Nanometre-scale displacement sensing using a single electron transistor. Nature. 2003 Jul;424(6946):291–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cabernard C, Prehoda KE, Doe CQ. A spindle-independent cleavage furrow positioning pathway. Nature. 2010 Sep;467(7311):91–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nunoura T, Chikaraishi Y, Izaki R, Suwa T, Sato T, Harada T, et al. A primordial and reversible TCA cycle in a facultatively chemolithoautotrophic thermophile. Science. 2018 Feb;359(6375):559–63.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wells JT. Corporate Fraud Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Jonker W, Petković M, editors. Secure Data Management: 9th VLDB Workshop, SDM 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, August 27, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Girish S, Gupta M. Clinical Pharmacology Strategies in the Development of Antibody–Drug Conjugates. In: Phillips GL, editor. Antibody-Drug Conjugates and Immunotoxins: From Pre-Clinical Development to Therapeutic Applications. New York, NY: Springer; 2013; pp 57–75.

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 Pharmacology.

Blog post

Hale T. Some Old (And Very Important) Mold Just Sold For $14,617 [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Mar [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/some-old-and-very-important-mold-just-sold-for-14617/

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. Traffic Congestion: Road Pricing Can Help Reduce Congestion, but Equity Concerns May Grow. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ebrahimi A. A recreational and vocational program for foster youth who reside in group homes: A grant proposal. 2015

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

Koblin J. Netflix, With Money to Burn, Draws the Ire of Spurned TV Executives. New York Times. 2017 Jun;B4.

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	Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Pharmacology
ISSN (print)	0031-7012
ISSN (online)	1423-0313
Scope	General Medicine Pharmacology