How to format your references using the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice citation style

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

Selkoe DJ. Alzheimer’s disease is a synaptic failure. Science. 2002 Oct 25;298(5594):789–91.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwefel HGL, Türeci HE. Optics. A chaotic approach clears up imaging. Science. 2015 Apr 10;348(6231):189–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Franke KJ, Schulze G, Pascual JI. Competition of superconducting phenomena and Kondo screening at the nanoscale. Science. 2011 May 20;332(6032):940–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Felis T, Lohmann G, Kuhnert H, Lorenz SJ, Scholz D, Pätzold J, et al. Increased seasonality in Middle East temperatures during the last interglacial period. Nature. 2004 May 13;429(6988):164–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Daubert EJ. The Annual Campaign. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Gleizes MP, Omicini A, Zambonelli F, editors. Engineering Societies in the Agents World V: 5th International Workshop, ESAW 2004, Toulouse, France, October 20-22, 2004. Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. XIV, 354 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 3451).

A chapter in an edited book

Tuniz C, Tiberi Vipraio P. The Quest for Fire. In: Tiberi Vipraio P, editor. Humans: An Unauthorized Biography. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 29–36.

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 International Journal of Pharmacy Practice.

Blog post

Fang J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Fish Can’t Have Sex With All That Traffic Noise. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fish-cant-have-sex-all-traffic-noise/

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. No Federal Programs Are Designed Primarily To Support Engineering Education, but Many Do. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982 May. Report No.: PAD-82-20.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bentley KJ. Modern Public Market to Revitalize a Small Community [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2016.

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

Vecsey G. A Coach’s Mistake, a Teaching Moment. New York Times. 2010 May 5;B11.

In-text citations

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

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	International Journal of Pharmacy Practice
Abbreviation	Int. J. Pharm. Pract.
ISSN (print)	0961-7671
ISSN (online)	2042-7174
Scope	Health Policy Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Pharmaceutical Science Pharmacy