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

Bernardini, E. Astronomy. Astronomy in the Time Domain. Science 2011, 331, 686–687.

A journal article with 2 authors

Caldeira, K.; Wickett, M.E. Oceanography: Anthropogenic Carbon and Ocean PH. Nature 2003, 425, 365.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bibby, T.S.; Nield, J.; Barber, J. Iron Deficiency Induces the Formation of an Antenna Ring around Trimeric Photosystem I in Cyanobacteria. Nature 2001, 412, 743–745.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hansen, T.W.; Wagner, J.B.; Hansen, P.L.; Dahl, S.; Topsøe, H.; Jacobsen, C.J. Atomic-Resolution in Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy of a Promoter of a Heterogeneous Catalyst. Science 2001, 294, 1508–1510.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chan, E.P. Algorithmic Trading; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013; ISBN 9781118676998.

An edited book

Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development: First International Conference, SEAFOOD 2007, Zurich, Switzerland, February 5-6, 2007. Revised Papers; Meyer, B., Joseph, M., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007; Vol. 4716; ISBN 9783540755418.

A chapter in an edited book

Turner, B. United Nations System. In The Statesman’s Yearbook 2008: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World; Turner, B., Ed.; The Stateman’s Yearbook; Palgrave Macmillan UK: London, 2007; pp. 12–15 ISBN 9781403992772.

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

Andrew, E. What Do Eye Stitches Look Like? (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 Office of Science and Technology Policy: Violation of the Antideficiency Act; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2011;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Calhoun, G.F. Limit Theory for Overfit Models. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego: La Jolla, CA, 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

Wagner, J. Mets Evaluate Their Options at First Base After Duda Is Sidelined by Hip Stiffness. New York Times 2017, SP3.

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