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

Buckingham, S. Buying into the Knowledge Game. Nature 2004, 428, 775.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kulesa, P.M.; Fraser, S.E. Cell Dynamics during Somite Boundary Formation Revealed by Time-Lapse Analysis. Science 2002, 298, 991–995.

A journal article with 3 authors

Viswanathan, S.R.; Daley, G.Q.; Gregory, R.I. Selective Blockade of MicroRNA Processing by Lin28. Science 2008, 320, 97–100.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, H.; Zhou, W.; Liu, Y.; Dong, X.; Zhang, C.; Miao, C.; Zhang, M.; Li, E.; Tang, C. Preliminary Investigation of an SOI-Based Arrayed Waveguide Grating Demodulation Integration Microsystem. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4848.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG Funding Atlas 2012; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2013; ISBN 9783527675500.

An edited book

Coordinated Activity in the Brain: Measurements and Relevance to Brain Function and Behavior; Velazquez, J.L.P., Wennberg, R., Eds.; Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience; Springer: New York, NY, 2009; Vol. 2; ISBN 9780387937960.

A chapter in an edited book

Thomas, A.; Kopczak, L.R. Life-Saving Supply Chains. In Building Supply Chain Excellence in Emerging Economies; Lee, H.L., Lee, C.-Y., Eds.; International Series in Operations Research & Management Science; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2007; pp. 93–111 ISBN 9780387384283.

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

Andrew, E. Astonishing Time-Lapse Of Hawaii’s Volcanoes (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 Critical Infrastructure: Challenges Remain in Protecting Key Sectors; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Biller, J.T. Cyber-Terrorism: Finding a Common Starting Point. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2012.

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

Pilon, M. A Lawyer by Day, a Runner Always. New York Times 2014, B18.

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