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

Kidd, T. Neuroscience. Crossing the Line. Science 2009, 324, 893–894.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knight, S.W.; Bass, B.L. A Role for the RNase III Enzyme DCR-1 in RNA Interference and Germ Line Development in Caenorhabditis Elegans. Science 2001, 293, 2269–2271.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palenzuela, C.; Lehner, L.; Liebling, S.L. Dual Jets from Binary Black Holes. Science 2010, 329, 927–930.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yoshihara, M.; Adolfsen, B.; Galle, K.T.; Littleton, J.T. Retrograde Signaling by Syt 4 Induces Presynaptic Release and Synapse-Specific Growth. Science 2005, 310, 858–863.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rebonato, R. Volatility and Correlation; John Wiley & Sons Ltd: Oxford, UK, 2004; ISBN 9781118673539.

An edited book

Control and Systems Engineering: A Report on Four Decades of Contributions; El-Osery, A., Prevost, J., Eds.; Studies in Systems, Decision and Control; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; Vol. 27; ISBN 9783319146355.

A chapter in an edited book

Copie, A.; Fortiş, T.-F.; Munteanu, V.I. Data Security Perspectives in the Framework of Cloud Governance. In Euro-Par 2012: Parallel Processing Workshops: BDMC, CGWS, HeteroPar, HiBB, OMHI, Paraphrase, PROPER, Resilience, UCHPC, VHPC, Rhodes Islands, Greece, August 27-31, 2012. Revised Selected Papers; Caragiannis, I., Alexander, M., Badia, R.M., Cannataro, M., Costan, A., Danelutto, M., Desprez, F., Krammer, B., Sahuquillo, J., Scott, S.L., Weidendorfer, J., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; pp. 24–33 ISBN 9783642369483.

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

Carpineti, A. Gravitational Wave Observatory In Space Will See The Seed Of Supermassive Black Holes (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 Project on Standardization of Basic Financial Information Requirements of Central Agencies; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1991;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brigida, M.D. Target Stock Price Runup Prior to Acquisitions. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University: Boca Raton, FL, 2009.

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

David Goodman, J.; White, R. 2nd Victim Found in Rubble of Brooklyn Building That Exploded. New York Times 2015, A26.

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