How to format your references using the Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

[1]

Goldston D. Washington, we have a problem. Nature 2007;446:244.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bucchi M, Neresini F. Biotechnology. Why are people hostile to biotechnologies? Science 2004;304:1749.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Burnham D, Kitamura C, Vollmer-Conna U. What’s new, pussycat? On talking to babies and animals. Science 2002;296:1435.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yu L, Misra S, Wang J, Qian S, Foldyna M, Xu J, et al. Understanding light harvesting in radial junction amorphous silicon thin film solar cells. Sci Rep 2014;4:4357.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dayton G. Trade Mindfully. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Folgueras Méndez J, Aznielle Rodríguez TY, Calderón Marín CF, Llanusa Ruiz SB, Castro Medina J, Vega Vázquez H, et al., editors. V Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering CLAIB 2011 May 16-21, 2011, Habana, Cuba: Sustainable Technologies for the Health of All. vol. 33. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lemle E, Bomkamp K, Williams MK, Cutbirth E. Interview with Brent N. Bushnell, Co-Founder and CEO of Two Bit Circus. In: Bomkamp K, Williams MK, Cutbirth E, editors. Two Bit Circus and the Future of Entertainment, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 39–47.

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 Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Superhero-strength spider silk is coming to market. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/superhero-strength-spider-silk-coming-market/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Contracting Strategies: Better Data and Management Needed to Leverage Value of Interagency and Enterprisewide Contracts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Briseno AR. Improving school performance through family involvement: A grant project. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Burns A, Shear MD. Trump Turmoil Is Confounding G.O.P. Agenda. New York Times 2017:A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
ISSN (print)	1818-0876
Scope