How to format your references using the The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 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	Download the output style file
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

Cannon B (2013) Sensation and loss. Nature 503:S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bier E, and De Robertis EM (2015) EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT. BMP gradients: A paradigm for morphogen-mediated developmental patterning. Science 348:aaa5838.

A journal article with 3 authors

Santos MD, Dorogovtsev SN, and Mendes JFF (2014) Biased imitation in coupled evolutionary games in interdependent networks. Sci Rep 4:4436.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Odkhuu D, Shin D, Ruoff RS, and Park N (2013) Conversion of multilayer graphene into continuous ultrathin sp³-bonded carbon films on metal surfaces. Sci Rep 3:3276.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rochange C, Uhrig S, and Sainrat P (2013) Time-Predictable Architectures, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Manolopoulos Y (2006) R-Trees: Theory and Applications (Nanopoulos A, Papadopoulos AN, and Theodoridis Y eds), Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Costantini S (2015) ACE: A Flexible Environment for Complex Event Processing in Logical Agents, in Engineering Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, EMAS 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, May 5, 2015, Revised, Selected, and Invited Papers (Baldoni M, Baresi L, and Dastani M eds) pp 70–91, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Scientists Finally Unlock The Secrets Behind Superconductivity, IFLScience.

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 (1995) National Airspace System: Comprehensive FAA Plan for Global Positioning System Is Needed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McKenzie RA (2012) A correlational study of servant leadership and teacher job satisfaction in a public education institution, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Cooper M, and Walsh MW (2012) Leading Way, 2 Cities Pass Pension Cuts.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Cannon, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Cannon, 2013; Bier and De Robertis, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Bier and De Robertis, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Odkhuu et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Abbreviation	J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther.
ISSN (print)	0022-3565
ISSN (online)	1521-0103
Scope	Molecular Medicine Pharmacology