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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for DARU 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. Sargent P. Too many memories. Nature. 2000;408:525.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. de Vernal A, Hillaire-Marcel C. Natural variability of Greenland climate, vegetation, and ice volume during the past million years. Science. 2008;320:1622–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Berger J, Swenson JE, Persson IL. Recolonizing carnivores and naïve prey: conservation lessons from Pleistocene extinctions. Science. 2001;291:1036–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Aspuru-Guzik A, Dutoi AD, Love PJ, Head-Gordon M. Simulated quantum computation of molecular energies. Science. 2005;309:1704–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ghosh A, Berg S. Arrow Pushing in Inorganic Chemistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Kifer M. Introduction to Operating System Design and Implementation: The OSP 2 Approach. Smolka SA, editor. London: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kierkegaard S. Data Insecurity: Scams, Blags & Scalawags. In: Krüger J, Nickolay B, Gaycken S, editors. The Secure Information Society: Ethical, Legal and Political Challenges. London: Springer; 2013. p. 117–34.

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 DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Newly Discovered Da Vinci Doodle Reveals His Understanding Of Friction 200 Years Before Anyone Else [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/newly-discovered-da-vinci-doodle-reveals-his-understanding-of-friction-200-years-before-anyone-else/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Next Generation Air Transportation System: FAA Faces Implementation Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Sep. Report No.: GAO-12-1011T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Olch R. Low cost/no cost quality of life programs in non-profit theatre [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

1. Silver-Greenberg J, Corkery M. The Used Car Was Repossessed, But the Lender Is Still Collecting. New York Times. 2017 Jun 18;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	DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Abbreviation	Daru
ISSN (online)	2008-2231
Scope