How to format your references using the Scientia Pharmaceutica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Scientia Pharmaceutica. 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

Koentges, G. Journal Club. A Genomic Systems Biologist Muses on How Shared DNA Mistakes Reveal Shared Cellular Ancestry. Nature 2010, 467, 255.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leeman, D.S.; Brunet, A. Stem Cells: Sex Specificity in the Blood. Nature 2014, 505, 488–490.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, S.; Ubel, P.; De Vries, R. Pruning the Regulatory Tree. Nature 2009, 457, 534–535.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Molnár, A.; Schwach, F.; Studholme, D.J.; Thuenemann, E.C.; Baulcombe, D.C. MiRNAs Control Gene Expression in the Single-Cell Alga Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii. Nature 2007, 447, 1126–1129.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vignes, A. Extractive Metallurgy 2; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013; ISBN 9781118616932.

An edited book

Chattopadhyay, S. Electric Power Quality; Mitra, M., Sengupta, S., Eds.; Power Systems; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2011; ISBN 9789400706347.

A chapter in an edited book

Fabrègue, D.; Landron, C.; Béal, C.; Kleber, X.; Maire, E.; Bouzekri, M. Understanding the Mechanical Behaviour of a High Manganese TWIP Steel by the Means of in Situ 3D X Ray Tomography. In Optical Measurements, Modeling, and Metrology, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics; Proulx, T., Ed.; Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series; Springer: New York, NY, 2011; pp. 27–32 ISBN 9781461402275.

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 Scientia Pharmaceutica.

Blog post

Luntz, S. New Breakthrough In Lithium-Oxygen Battery Technology Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/two-battery-breakthroughs-future-electric-cars/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority: Improved Planning of Future Rehabilitation Projects Could Prevent Limitations Identified with SafeTrack; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2017;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

White, J. Support Group for Family Caregivers of Alzheimer’s Patients: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2014.

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

de la MERCED, M.J.; Fandos, N. Broadcaster Sets a Collision Course With Fox. New York Times 2017, A1.

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	Scientia Pharmaceutica
Abbreviation	Sci. Pharm.
ISSN (online)	2218-0532
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science