How to format your references using the PharmaNutrition citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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]
P.W. May, Materials science. The new diamond age?, Science 319 (2008) 1490–1491.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
T.M. Lewinsohn, L. Cagnolo, Ecology. Keystones in a tangled bank, Science 335 (2012) 1449–1451.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
S.P. Good, D. Noone, G. Bowen, WATER RESOURCES. Hydrologic connectivity constrains partitioning of global terrestrial water fluxes, Science 349 (2015) 175–177.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
B.R. McNamara, P.E.J. Nulsen, M.W. Wise, D.A. Rafferty, C. Carilli, C.L. Sarazin, E.L. Blanton, The heating of gas in a galaxy cluster by X-ray cavities and large-scale shock fronts, Nature 433 (2005) 45–47.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
D.J. Smith, Bond Math, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.
An edited book
[1]
T. Margaria, B. Steffen, eds., Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification, and Validation: 4th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications, ISoLA 2010, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, October 18-21, 2010, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
B. Moran, S. Howard, D. Cochran, Positive-Operator-Valued Measures: A General Setting for Frames, in: T.D. Andrews, R. Balan, J.J. Benedetto, W. Czaja, K.A. Okoudjou (Eds.), Excursions in Harmonic Analysis, Volume 2: The February Fourier Talks at the Norbert Wiener Center, Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, 2013: pp. 49–64.

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 PharmaNutrition.

Blog post
[1]
E. Andrew, Legal Highs – A Look At The Growing Use Of Synthetic Drugs, IFLScience (2015).

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, Technology Transfer: Federal Agencies’ Patent Licensing Activities, 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
[1]
L.L. Hughes, The principalship: Preparation programs and the self-efficacy of principals, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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
[1]
J. Wagner, DeGrom Bounces Back in Style, but Cespedes Exits With Soreness, New York Times (2017) B10.

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 titlePharmaNutrition
AbbreviationPharmaNutrition
ISSN (print)2213-4344
ScopeFood Science
Pharmacology (medical)
Pharmacology

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