How to format your references using the Pharmacy Today citation style

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

[1]

S.L. Lewis, Scientist-versus-activist debates mislead the public, Nature. 506 (2014) 409.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

V. von Messling, R. Cattaneo, Virology. A henipavirus vaccine in sight, Science. 337 (2012) 651–652.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.D. Beatty, K. Beirinckx, T.N. Sherratt, The evolution of müllerian mimicry in multispecies communities, Nature. 431 (2004) 63–66.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.P. Freedman, J.H. Leach, E.A. Preble, Z. Sitar, R.F. Davis, J.A. Malen, Universal phonon mean free path spectra in crystalline semiconductors at high temperature, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2963.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Misstear, D. Banks, L. Clark, Water Wells and Boreholes, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

G. Arnicans, V. Arnicane, J. Borzovs, L. Niedrite, eds., Databases and Information Systems: 12th International Baltic Conference, DB&IS 2016, Riga, Latvia, July 4-6, 2016, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Hentrich, Synchronization Patterns for Process-Driven and Service-Oriented Architectures, in: J. Noble, R. Johnson (Eds.), Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 103–135.

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 Today.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Scientists Shed A Little Bit Of Light On Elusive True’s Beaked Whales, IFLScience. (2017).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, [Comments on Montana’s Entitlement to Restoration of Rehabilitation Funds], U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.D. Eskridge, Municipal government: Does institutional structural reform make a difference in local government?, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 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

[1]

J. Eligon, With the Security Team At a Las Vegas Casino, New York Times. (2017) A21.

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 Today
ISSN (print)	1042-0991
Scope