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

Heki K. Geophysics. A tale of two earthquakes. Science. 2011;332(6036):1390-1391.

A journal article with 2 authors

Siliciano JD, Siliciano RF. AIDS/HIV. Rekindled HIV infection. Science. 2014;345(6200):1005-1006.

A journal article with 3 authors

Anderson G, Aagaard B, Hudnut K. Fault interactions and large complex earthquakes in the Los Angeles area. Science. 2003;302(5652):1946-1949.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hirschberg JH, Brunsveld L, Ramzi A, Vekemans JA, Sijbesma RP, Meijer EW. Helical self-assembled polymers from cooperative stacking of hydrogen-bonded pairs. Nature. 2000;407(6801):167-170.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Traitler H, Coleman B, Hofmann K. Food Industry Design, Technology and Innovation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Cannarsa P. Introduzione Alla Teoria Della Misura e All’analisi Funzionale. (D’Aprile T, ed.). Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Aucher G. Consistency Preservation and Crazy Formulas in BMS. In: Hölldobler S, Lutz C, Wansing H, eds. Logics in Artificial Intelligence: 11th European Conference, JELIA 2008, Dresden, Germany, September 28-October 1, 2008. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2008:21-33.

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

Andrew E. White House Halts US Experiments on the Human Germline. IFLScience.

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. Aviation Security: Transportation Security Administration Faces Immediate and Long-Term Challenges. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Frey EF. Technology Diffusion and Environmental Regulation: Evidence from Electric Power Plants under the Clean Air Act. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2008.

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

Feeney K. Ready-to-Eat for Rosh Hashana. New York Times. September 5, 2010:NJ14.

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