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

Howard AW. Observed properties of extrasolar planets. Science. 2013 May 3;340(6132):572–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bshary R, Grutter AS. Image scoring and cooperation in a cleaner fish mutualism. Nature. 2006 Jun 22;441(7096):975–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rohatgi R, Milenkovic L, Scott MP. Patched1 regulates hedgehog signaling at the primary cilium. Science. 2007 Jul 20;317(5836):372–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hansen CJ, Esposito L, Stewart AIF, Colwell J, Hendrix A, Pryor W, et al. Enceladus’ water vapor plume. Science. 2006 Mar 10;311(5766):1422–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

CCPS. Guidelines for Mechanical Integrity Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

Kim TH, Ramos C, Abawajy J, Kang BH, Ślęzak D, Adeli H, editors. Computer Applications for Modeling, Simulation, and Automobile: International Conferences, MAS and ASNT 2012, Held in Conjunction with GST 2012, Jeju Island, Korea, November 28-December 2, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. XIV, 326 p. 227 illus. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 341).

A chapter in an edited book

Muñoz JJ, Rabiei N, Lyamin A, Huerta A. Computation of Bounds for Anchor Problems in Limit Analysis and Decomposition Techniques. In: Spiliopoulos K, Weichert D, editors. Direct Methods for Limit States in Structures and Materials. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 79–99.

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 D. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016. Testing Life-Hacks With ‘Citizen Science’: Does Stainless Steel Really Get Rid Of Garlic Smells?

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. Indian Affairs: Key Actions Needed to Ensure Safety and Health at Indian School Facilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Mar. Report No.: GAO-16-313.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bustillo MF. Heart and Art: Post-adoption program: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Schwirtz M. Two Ex-Correction Officials Deny Clearing Trips to Maine. New York Times. 2017 May 8;A19.

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