How to format your references using the Pharmaceuticals citation style

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

Mátyás, C. Forecasts Needed for Retreating Forests. Nature 2010, 464, 1271.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marshall, C.R.; Jacobs, D.K. Paleontology. Flourishing after the End-Permian Mass Extinction. Science 2009, 325, 1079–1080.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sterzik, M.F.; Bagnulo, S.; Palle, E. Biosignatures as Revealed by Spectropolarimetry of Earthshine. Nature 2012, 483, 64–66.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, Z.; Luyten, I.; Bottomley, M.J.; Messias, A.C.; Houngninou-Molango, S.; Sprangers, R.; Zanier, K.; Krämer, A.; Sattler, M. Structural Basis for Recognition of the Intron Branch Site RNA by Splicing Factor 1. Science 2001, 294, 1098–1102.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Speight, J.G. Coal-Fired Power Generation Handbook; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013; ISBN 9781118739457.

An edited book

Özkaya, E. Adverse Cutaneous Drug Reactions to Cardiovascular Drugs; Yazganoğlu, K.D., Ed.; Springer: London, 2014; ISBN 9781447165354.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, Y.; Luo, X.; Hu, S. Polyols and Polyurethanes from Protein-Based Feedstocks. In Bio-based Polyols and Polyurethanes; Luo, X., Hu, S., Eds.; SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 65–79 ISBN 9783319215389.

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 Pharmaceuticals.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. Rosetta’s Comet Is Younger Than Previously Thought Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosetta-s-comet-is-younger-than-previously-thought/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Air Pollution: EPA Needs More Data From FHwA on Changes to Highway Projects; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1990;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

O’Connell, A.M. Customer Retention and Leadership in the Nonprofit Healthcare Organization. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 2008.

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

Kenigsberg, B. You’re Killing Me Susana. New York Times 2017, C13.

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	Pharmaceuticals
Abbreviation	Pharmaceuticals (Basel)
ISSN (online)	1424-8247
Scope	Molecular Medicine Pharmaceutical Science