How to format your references using the Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and 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. Przeworski M. Genome-sequencing anniversary. The golden age of human population genetics. Science. 2011;331:547.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Koyama K, Takemoto S. Morning reduction of photosynthetic capacity before midday depression. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4389.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Barber VA, Juday GP, Finney BP. Reduced growth of Alaskan white spruce in the twentieth century from temperature-induced drought stress. Nature. 2000;405:668–73.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Brebner K, Wong TP, Liu L, Liu Y, Campsall P, Gray S, et al. Nucleus accumbens long-term depression and the expression of behavioral sensitization. Science. 2005;310:1340–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sinzinger S, Jahns J. Microoptics. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

1. Yin Q. Microstructure, Property and Processing of Functional Ceramics. Zhu B, Zeng H, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wieloch K, Filipowska A, Kaczmarek M. Autocompletion for Business Process Modelling. In: Abramowicz W, Maciaszek L, Węcel K, editors. Business Information Systems Workshops: BIS 2011 International Workshops and BPSC International Conference, Poznań, Poland, June 15-17, 2011 Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 30–40.

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 Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Dark Coloration Might Help Birds Survive On Smaller Islands. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Telecommunications: Enhanced Data Collection and Analysis Could Inform FCC’s Efforts to Complete the Digital Transition of Low-Power Television Stations and Reallocate Spectrum. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Sep. Report No.: GAO-11-790.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Robertson M. Respite efficacy for parents of adults with intellectual disabilities: An ethnographic perspective [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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. Rothenberg B. With Appeal Over, Sharapova Lobs Criticism at Tennis Leaders. New York Times. 2016 Oct 5;B10.

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	Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Pharm. Health Care Sci.
ISSN (online)	2055-0294
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