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

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

Armstrong FA. Chemistry. Copying biology’s ways with hydrogen. Science. 2013 Feb 8;339(6120):658–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Osborne I, Coontz R. Quantum wonderland. Introduction to special issue. Science. 2008 Feb 29;319(5867):1201.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bylander J, Duty T, Delsing P. Current measurement by real-time counting of single electrons. Nature. 2005 Mar 17;434(7031):361–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rokas A, Williams BL, King N, Carroll SB. Genome-scale approaches to resolving incongruence in molecular phylogenies. Nature. 2003 Oct 23;425(6960):798–804.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Process Safety Documentation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1995.

An edited book

Sui Pheng L. Service Quality for Facilities Management in Hospitals. Rui Z, editor. Singapore: Springer; 2016. XIV, 146 p. 17 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang X, Li H, Xia Z. Chlamydia pneumoniae Pneumonia. In: Li H, editor. Radiology of Infectious Diseases: Volume 2. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015. p. 69–74.

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 Pharmacy Technology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Watch Two Astronauts Live On Their Spacewalk Outside The ISS. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Aviation Safety: Certification and Approval Processes Are Generally Viewed as Working Well, but Better Evaluative Information Needed to Improve Efficiency. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010 Oct. Report No.: GAO-11-14.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Quiros PQ. SNR estimation and jamming detection techniques using wavelets [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Kelly T by J. Boy of Summer. New York Times. 2014 Sep 19;MM43.

In-text citations

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

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 Journal of Pharmacy Technology
Abbreviation	J. Pharm. Technol.
ISSN (print)	8755-1225
ISSN (online)	1549-4810
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science

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