How to format your references using the The Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy. 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

Claussen M. Astronomy. Astronomical masers. Science. 2004 Oct 8;306(5694):235–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gruenheid S, Finlay BB. Microbial pathogenesis and cytoskeletal function. Nature. 2003 Apr 17;422(6933):775–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gwynne DT, Judge KA, Kelly CD. Evidence for male allocation in pipefish? Nature. 2010 Aug 26;466(7310):E11; discussion E12.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Clarke G, Collins RA, Leavitt BR, Andrews DF, Hayden MR, Lumsden CJ, et al. A one-hit model of cell death in inherited neuronal degenerations. Nature. 2000 Jul 13;406(6792):195–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lavagnini I, Magno F, Seraglia R, Traldi P. Quantitative Applications of Mass Spectrometry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Annibale VSD, editor. Cold Breezes and Idiot Winds: Patriotic Correctness and the Post-9/11 Assault on Academe. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2011. XXVII, 247 p. (Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education; vol. 70).

A chapter in an edited book

Bassetti M, Della Siega P, Pecori D. Light and Shade of New Antibiotics. In: Vincent JL, editor. Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 63–83. (Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine).

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 The Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015. How To Make Sure You’ll Have Tall, Healthy Kids.

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. GAO Rolodex Cards. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Apr. Report No.: 148869.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Martinez JC. Theoretically tested remediation in response to insect resistance to Bt corn and Bt cotton: A new paradigm [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 2015.

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

Hubbard B. Saudi Arabia to Rescind Ban on Female Drivers. New York Times. 2017 Sep 26;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	The Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy
Abbreviation	Can. J. Hosp. Pharm.
ISSN (print)	0008-4123
ISSN (online)	1920-2903
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacy