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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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	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

Sales BC. Thermoelectric materials. Smaller is cooler. Science. 2002;295(5558):1248-1249.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bull JJ, Parrish CR. Microbiology. A binding contract for anthrax. Science. 2002;297(5579):201-202.

A journal article with 3 authors

von Caemmerer S, Quick WP, Furbank RT. The development of C₄rice: current progress and future challenges. Science. 2012;336(6089):1671-1672.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Leonard JA, Wayne RK, Wheeler J, Valadez R, Guillén S, Vilà C. Ancient DNA evidence for Old World origin of New World dogs. Science. 2002;298(5598):1613-1616.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazar Madjar H. Radio Spectrum Management. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Tian J, Jing J, Srivatsa M, eds. International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks: 10th International ICST Conference, SecureComm 2014, Beijing, China, September 24-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. Vol 153. Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Kadow JF, Langley DR, Meanwell NA, Pracitto R, Walker MA, Yeung KS. Protein-Protein Interaction Targets to Inhibit HIV-1 Infection. In: Wendt MD, ed. Protein-Protein Interactions. Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. Springer; 2012:105-165.

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 Sciences.

Blog post

Hale T. Woman Who Received World’s First Partial Face Transplant Has Died. IFLScience. September 7, 2016.

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. West Coast Ports: Better Supply Chain Information Could Improve DOT’s Freight Efforts. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Holby N. School Counselors and Their Experiences Implementing Comprehensive Programs. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 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

Hubbard B. Saudi Prince Rejects Talks With Iran. New York Times. May 2, 2017:A9.

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	Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Pharm. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0022-3549
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science