How to format your references using the Results in Pharma Sciences citation style

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

[1]

T.H. Burbine, Planetary science. Identifying ancient asteroids, Science 320 (2008) 457–458.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Satpute-Krishnan, T.R. Serio, Prion protein remodelling confers an immediate phenotypic switch, Nature 437 (2005) 262–265.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. Rogina, S.L. Helfand, S. Frankel, Longevity regulation by Drosophila Rpd3 deacetylase and caloric restriction, Science 298 (2002) 1745.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Lei, J. Ma, X. Du, G. Shen, X. Jin, Q. Gong, Microstructural abnormalities in the combined and inattentive subtypes of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging study, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6875.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Malcolm, The British and Irish Short Story Handbook, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

G. Heinrich, ed., Advanced Rubber Composites, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Hull, A.M. O’Donovan, Acts, Omissions, and Assisted Death: Some Reflections on the Marie Fleming Case, in: A. Fives, K. Breen (Eds.), Philosophy and Political Engagement: Reflection in the Public Sphere, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016: pp. 79–96.

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 Results in Pharma Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, World’s Tiniest Deer Species Born At New York City Zoo, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/world-s-tiniest-deer-gives-birth-new-york-city-zoo/ (accessed 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Commuter Rail Service in Wisconsin and Illinois, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V. Hoang, Software maintenance: A program slicer using cross referencer, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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

[1]

J. Leland, Grandmaster Flash Beats Back Time, New York Times (2016) MB1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Results in Pharma Sciences
Abbreviation	Results Pharma Sci.
ISSN (print)	2211-2863
Scope	LPN and LVN Pharmaceutical Science Education Law Sociology and Political Science