How to format your references using the In Silico Pharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for In Silico Pharmacology. 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

Broz P. Immunology: Caspase target drives pyroptosis. Nature. 2015 Oct 29;526(7575):642–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Loreau M, Hector A. Partitioning selection and complementarity in biodiversity experiments. Nature. 2001 Jul 5;412(6842):72–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smolin JA, Smith G, Vargo A. Oversimplifying quantum factoring. Nature. 2013 Jul 11;499(7457):163–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Buckley GA, Brochu CA, Krause DW, Pol D. A pug-nosed crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Nature. 2000 Jun 22;405(6789):941–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Best P. Implementing Value at Risk. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Sánchez-Silva M. Reliability and Life-Cycle Analysis of Deteriorating Systems. Klutke G-A, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Daley JM, Paterson G, Drouillard KG. Bioamplification as a Bioaccumulation Mechanism for Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Wildlife. In: Whitacre DM, editor. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Volume 227. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 107–55.

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 In Silico Pharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Can’t We Just Remove Carbon Dioxide From The Air To Fix Climate Change? Not Yet [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/can-t-we-just-remove-carbon-dioxide-air-fix-climate-change-not-yet/

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. Commercial Activities in Schools: Use of Student Data is Limited and Additional Dissemination of Guidance Could Help Districts Develop Policies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Aug. Report No.: GAO-04-810.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Datta A. Speech Synthesis Using Unsupervised Learning [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Detrick B. Paul’s Casablanca. New York Times. 2016 Nov 30;D9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Broz 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Broz 2015; Loreau and Hector 2001).

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

Two authors: (Loreau and Hector 2001)
Three or more authors: (Buckley et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	In Silico Pharmacology
Abbreviation	In Silico Pharmacol.
ISSN (online)	2193-9616
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