How to format your references using the Pharmacy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pharmacy. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Bolfan-Casanova, N. Geochemistry. Fuel for Plate Tectonics. Science 2007, 315, 338–339.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jagoutz, O.; Behn, M.D. Foundering of Lower Island-Arc Crust as an Explanation for the Origin of the Continental Moho. Nature 2013, 504, 131–134.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lind, G.; Linsmeier, C.E.; Schouenborg, J. The Density Difference between Tissue and Neural Probes Is a Key Factor for Glial Scarring. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2942.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mojić, M.; Bogdanović Pristov, J.; Maksimović-Ivanić, D.; Jones, D.R.; Stanić, M.; Mijatović, S.; Spasojević, I. Extracellular Iron Diminishes Anticancer Effects of Vitamin C: An in Vitro Study. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5955.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg, S.M. Cost Reduction Analysis; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010; ISBN 9781118268346.

An edited book

Sagarin, R. Observation and Ecology: Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World; Pauchard, A., Ed.; Island Press/Center for Resource Economics: Washington, DC, 2012; ISBN 9781597263542.

A chapter in an edited book

Celik, I.B.; Pakalapati, S.R. From a Single Cell to a Stack Modeling. In Modeling Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Methods, Procedures and Techniques; Bove, R., Ubertini, S., Eds.; Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Energy; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2008; pp. 123–182 ISBN 9781402069949.

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 Pharmacy.

Blog post

Davis, J. Nepal Nearly Doubled Their Tiger Population In Just Three Years Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/nepal-nearly-doubled-their-tiger-population-in-just-three-years/ (accessed on 30 October 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

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; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2011;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Goshin, L.S. Behavior Problems and Competence in Preschoolers Who Spent Their First One to Eighteen Months in a Prison Nursery Program. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University: New York, NY, 2010.

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

Hubbard, B. Rebels’ Plight Is Clear in Yemeni Capital. New York Times 2016, A6.

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	Pharmacy
Abbreviation	Pharmacy (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2226-4787
Scope