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

Crowley TJ. Paleoclimate. Cycles, cycles everywhere. Science. 2002 Feb 22;295(5559):1473–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phan RT, Dalla-Favera R. The BCL6 proto-oncogene suppresses p53 expression in germinal-centre B cells. Nature. 2004 Dec 2;432(7017):635–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hammami A, Raymond N, Armand M. Lithium-ion batteries: runaway risk of forming toxic compounds. Nature. 2003 Aug 7;424(6949):635–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Han TA, Pereira LM, Santos FC, Lenaerts T. Good agreements make good friends. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2695.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sharon M, Sharon M. Graphene. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

Ferrari C, editor. Dinamica dei gas rarefatti. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. IV, 425 pagg. 54 figg. (C.I.M.E. Summer Schools; vol. 33).

A chapter in an edited book

Mazure A, Le Brun V. 300,000 years on: all present and correct. In: Le Brun V, editor. Matter, Dark Matter, and Anti-Matter: In Search of the Hidden Universe. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012. p. 71–82.

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

Fang J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015. Study Reveals How Traveling To Mars Could Damage Astronaut’s Brains.

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. Problems and Outlook of Small Private Liberal Arts Colleges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Aug. Report No.: HRD-78-91.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dasari RA. Automatic driving system by recognizing road signs using digital image processing [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2016.

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

Cline EH. Climate Change Doomed the Ancients. New York Times. 2014 May 28;A21.

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