How to format your references using the Research Results in Pharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research Results in Pharmacology. 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

Swing K (2011) Day of reckoning for Ecuador’s biodiversity. Nature 469: 267.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bartel B, Matsuda SPT (2003) Plant biology. Seeing red. Science (New York, N.Y.) 299: 352–353.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rupar PA, Staroverov VN, Baines KM (2008) A cryptand-encapsulated germanium(II) dication. Science (New York, N.Y.) 322: 1360–1363.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

van der Meijde M, Marone F, Giardini D, van der Lee S (2003) Seismic evidence for water deep in Earth’s upper mantle. Science (New York, N.Y.) 300: 1556–1558.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shi Y, Liu M, Fang F (2017) Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Sivalingam KM, Subramaniam S (Eds) (2005) Emerging Optical Network Technologies: Architectures, Protocols and Performance. Springer US, Boston, MA, XVIII, 454 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Scholz F, Zakharova EA, Kolpakova NA, Sister JD, Mairanovsky VG (2015) The Development of Voltammetric Electroanalysis in the Former USSR. In: Scholz F (Ed.), Electrochemistry in a Divided World: Innovations in Eastern Europe in the 20th Century. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 97–178.

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 Results in Pharmacology.

Blog post

Evans K (2016) 7 Ways To Tell If Someone Is Cheating On You. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/7-ways-to-tell-if-someone-is-cheating-on-you/ (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 (2008) Higher Education: United States’ and Other Countries’ Strategies for Attracting and Funding International Students. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tam R (2013) Adaptation of AspectJ for C sharp. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach

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

Eligon J (2017) Family of Man Shot by Officer Settles Suit. New York Times: A17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Swing 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Bartel and Matsuda 2003, Swing 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Bartel and Matsuda 2003)
Three or more authors: (van der Meijde et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research Results in Pharmacology
ISSN (online)	2658-381X
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