How to format your references using the Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Social and Administrative 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	Download the output style file
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

Kerr RA. GEOPHYSICS: Atmosphere Drives Earth’s Tipsiness. Science. 2000;289(5480):710.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mallon WT, Korn D. Education. Bonus pay for research faculty. Science. 2004;303(5657):476-477.

A journal article with 3 authors

Seibel BA, Robison BH, Haddock SHD. Post-spawning egg care by a squid. Nature. 2005;438(7070):929.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sander PM, Mateus O, Laven T, Knötschke N. Bone histology indicates insular dwarfism in a new Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur. Nature. 2006;441(7094):739-741.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eales LJ. Immunology for Life Scientists. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Tuberosa R, Graner A, Frison E, eds. Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources: Volume 1. Managing, Sequencing and Mining Genetic Resources. Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Rutz D, Janssen R. Socio-Economic Impacts of Biofuels on Land Use Change. In: Rutz D, Janssen R, eds. Socio-Economic Impacts of Bioenergy Production. Springer International Publishing; 2014:81-93.

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 Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy.

Blog post

Luntz S. Changing States? It’s Complicated. IFLScience. Published November 7, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/changing-states-its-complicated/

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. Space Operations: NASA Is Not Properly Safeguarding Valuable Data From Past Missions. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lange AW. Calcineurin/NFATc1/DSCR1 Pathway Function in Cardiac Valvuloseptal Development and Down Syndrome-Related Phenotypes. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati; 2006.

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Middle East: Qatar: Death Sought For Russians. New York Times. June 9, 2004:A11.

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	Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy
Abbreviation	Res. Social Adm. Pharm.
ISSN (print)	1551-7411
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science Pharmacy