How to format your references using the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (BJCP). 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 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

Lengauer C. Cancer. An unstable liaison. Science. 2003;300(5618):442-443.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ranen MC, Jacobsen SB. Barium isotopes in chondritic meteorites: implications for planetary reservoir models. Science. 2006;314(5800):809-812.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang Q, Shalaby NA, Buszczak M. Changes in rRNA transcription influence proliferation and cell fate within a stem cell lineage. Science. 2014;343(6168):298-301.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gurtner GC, Werner S, Barrandon Y, Longaker MT. Wound repair and regeneration. Nature. 2008;453(7193):314-321.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hens HSLC. Performance Based Building Design 2. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

Hendricks VF, Jørgensen KF, Lützen J, Pedersen SA, eds. Interactions: Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy, 1860–1930. Vol 251. Springer Netherlands; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Ashour-Abdalla M. A Simulation Study of the Relationship Between Tail Dynamics and the Aurora. In: Cowley FRS SWH, Southwood D, Mitton S, eds. Magnetospheric Plasma Physics: The Impact of Jim Dungey’s Research. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer International Publishing; 2015:109-127.

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 British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew E. The Genomic Revolution is Coming – and With it Some Big Dilemmas. IFLScience. July 2, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/genomic-revolution-coming-and-it-some-big-dilemmas/

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. Federal Communications Commission: Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 1999. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shore LA. The Anima in Animation: Miyazaki Heroines and Post-Patriarchal Consciousness. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute; 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

Gorman J. Study Puts a Little Distance Between Dinosaurs and Their Bird Relations. New York Times. January 2, 2017:A16.

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	British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
ISSN (print)	0306-5251
ISSN (online)	1365-2125
Scope