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

Wilkinson, D.M. Let’s Get the Right Man in the Right Job. Nature 2000, 406, 933.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richardson, C.; Jasin, M. Frequent Chromosomal Translocations Induced by DNA Double-Strand Breaks. Nature 2000, 405, 697–700.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shao, B.; Feng, M.; Zuo, X. Carrier-Dependent Magnetic Anisotropy of Cobalt Doped Titanium Dioxide. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 7496.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Friis, E.M.; Crane, P.R.; Pedersen, K.R.; Bengtson, S.; Donoghue, P.C.J.; Grimm, G.W.; Stampanoni, M. Phase-Contrast X-Ray Microtomography Links Cretaceous Seeds with Gnetales and Bennettitales. Nature 2007, 450, 549–552.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Niemi, V.; Nyberg, K. Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Security; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2006; ISBN 9780470091586.

An edited book

Rhee, D.J. Ophthalmologic Drug Guide; Colby, K.A., Rapuano, C.J., Sobrin, L., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, 2007; ISBN 9780387332512.

A chapter in an edited book

Guttman, J. Hydrogeology. In The Water of the Jordan Valley: Scarcity and Deterioration of Groundwater and its Impact on the Regional Development; Hötzl, H., Möller, P., Rosenthal, E., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; pp. 55–74 ISBN 9783540777564.

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

O`Callaghan, J. How To Set Up A VPN After Congress Voted To Sell Your Online Data Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-after-congress-voted-to-sell-your-online-data/ (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 Chemical Assessments: An Agencywide Strategy May Help EPA Address Unmet Needs for Integrated Risk Information System Assessments; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2013;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Randall, S.L. Psychologists’ Use of, Familiarity, and Comfort with Alcoholics Anonymous Slogans in Psychotherapy. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University: Malibu, CA, 2010.

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

Burghardt, L.F. ‘Traffic Calming’ Theory Can Provoke a Storm. New York Times 2008, LI5.

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

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