How to format your references using the Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice (POP). 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

Birge NO. Physics. Sensing a small but persistent current. Science 2009;326(5950):244–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ives AR, Whitlock MC. Ecology. Inbreeding and metapopulations. Science 2002;295(5554):454–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bertet C, Sulak L, Lecuit T. Myosin-dependent junction remodelling controls planar cell intercalation and axis elongation. Nature 2004;429(6992):667–71.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Choi J-H, Sim S-E, Kim J-I, et al. Interregional synaptic maps among engram cells underlie memory formation. Science 2018;360(6387):430–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wagner K, Doroslovački M. Proportionate-Type Normalized Least Mean Square Algorithms. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Whitacre DM, editor. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Vol 196. vol. 196. New York, NY: Springer US; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Cugusi B. Future Perspectives for the European Neighbourhood Policy. in: Celata F, Coletti R, editors. Neighbourhood Policy and the Construction of the European External Borders. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 139–54.

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 Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice.

Blog post

Andrew E. How To Watch The ISS Fly Overhead On Christmas Eve. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/britons-will-be-treated-wonderful-view-iss-tonight/. Accessed on October 30, 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. Ways of Increasing Productivity in the Maintenance of Commercial-Type Vehicles. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lovejoy LP. On the control of selective attention in the primate superior colliculus. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 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

Erard M. The Content of Their Characters. New York Times 2017:MM35.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice
Abbreviation	Prim. Care
ISSN (print)	0095-4543
ISSN (online)	1558-299X
Scope	Pharmacology (medical)