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

Finney C. Conservation economics. Comment on “Using ecological thresholds to evaluate the costs and benefits of set-asides in a biodiversity hotspot.” Science. 2015;347(6223):731.

A journal article with 2 authors

Steven AC, Spear PG. Biochemistry. Viral glycoproteins and an evolutionary conundrum. Science. 2006;313(5784):177-178.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang LJ, Kuzmich A, Dogariu A. Gain-assisted superluminal light propagation. Nature. 2000;406(6793):277-279.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Russell CT, Zhang TL, Delva M, Magnes W, Strangeway RJ, Wei HY. Lightning on Venus inferred from whistler-mode waves in the ionosphere. Nature. 2007;450(7170):661-662.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fabozzi FJ, Kothari V. Introduction to Securitization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Florack L, Duits R, Jongbloed G, Lieshout MC van, Davies L, eds. Mathematical Methods for Signal and Image Analysis and Representation. Vol 41. Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Brass P. Geometric Problems on Coverage in Sensor Networks. In: Bárány I, Böröczky KJ, Tóth GF, Pach J, eds. Geometry — Intuitive, Discrete, and Convex: A Tribute to László Fejes Tóth. Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies. Springer; 2013:91-108.

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. Forming Star Resembles Solar System’s Early Days. IFLScience. May 29, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/forming-star-resembles-solar-systems-early-days/

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 Transportation: NASA Has No Firm Need for Increasingly Costly Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle. 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

Nguyen T. Nail Technician Students’ Awareness of Some Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Chemicals Used in Nail Salons and Their Understanding of Health Protection. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Williams J. A Quiet Member of the Canon. New York Times. October 20, 2017:BR6.

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