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

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

Cornet FH. SEISMOLOGY. Earthquakes induced by fluid injections. Science. 2015;348(6240):1204-1205.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sagan SM, Sarnow P. Molecular biology. RNAi, Antiviral after all. Science. 2013;342(6155):207-208.

A journal article with 3 authors

McElwain JC, Wade-Murphy J, Hesselbo SP. Changes in carbon dioxide during an oceanic anoxic event linked to intrusion into Gondwana coals. Nature. 2005;435(7041):479-482.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Karpova NN, Pickenhagen A, Lindholm J, et al. Fear erasure in mice requires synergy between antidepressant drugs and extinction training. Science. 2011;334(6063):1731-1734.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hasslacher C, Böhm S. Diabetes and the Kidney. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Maus TM, Nhieu S, Herway ST, eds. Essential Echocardiography: Transesophageal Echocardiography for Non-Cardiac Anesthesiologists. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Ghosh P, Bhattacharjee D, Nasipuri M. An Automatic Non-invasive System for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis. In: Chaki R, Saeed K, Choudhury S, Chaki N, eds. Applied Computation and Security Systems: Volume One. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer India; 2015:59-70.

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 Pharmacological Sciences.

Blog post

Andrews R. Why You Should Go Meat-Free For One Day A Year, According To Science. IFLScience. June 12, 2017.

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. Bankruptcy Reform: Value of Credit Counseling Requirements Is Not Clear. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sutherland CE. Positive Deviance during Organization Change: Researchers’ Social Construction of Expanded University Goals. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University; 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

Kelly J. When the Mill Pulled the Rub Out From Under Yonkers. New York Times. July 29, 1979:Westchester WeeklyWC15.

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 Pharmacological Sciences
ISSN (print)	1347-8613
Scope