How to format your references using the Pharmacia citation style

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

Thulborn T (2003) Comment on “Ascent of dinosaurs linked to an iridium anomaly at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 301: 169; author reply 169.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thompson KH, Orvig C (2003) Boon and bane of metal ions in medicine. Science (New York, N.Y.) 300: 936–939.

A journal article with 3 authors

Feldon DF, Maher MA, Timmerman BE (2010) Graduate education. Performance-based data in the study of STEM Ph.D. education. Science (New York, N.Y.) 329: 282–283.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Blewett DT, Chabot NL, Denevi BW, Ernst CM, Head JW, Izenberg NR, Murchie SL, Solomon SC, Nittler LR, McCoy TJ, Xiao Z, Baker DMH, Fassett CI, Braden SE, Oberst J, Scholten F, Preusker F, Hurwitz DM (2011) Hollows on Mercury: MESSENGER evidence for geologically recent volatile-related activity. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333: 1856–1859.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benslama M, Batatia H, Messai A (2016) Transitions from Digital Communications to Quantum Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sirdeshmukh DB (2006) 80 Micro- and Macro-Properties of Solids: Thermal, Mechanical and Dielectric Properties. Sirdeshmukh L, Subhadra KG (Eds). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XVIII, 404 p. 209 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Giorgi E (2013) 1995. In: Betti R, Guerraggio A, Termini S (Eds), Storie e protagonisti della matematica italiana: per raccontare 20 anni di «Lettera Matematica Pristem». I blu. Springer, Milano, 65–78.

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 Pharmacia.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Toxin Resistance Suggests That Evolution Can Be Predictable. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/toxin-resistance-suggests-evolution-can-be-predictable/ (October 30, 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 (1986) ADP, IRM & Telecommunications, 1985. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Baldasaro RE (2013) Person level analysis in latent growth curve models. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina

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

Barron J (2017) Where’s the Art? at a Hamptons Center, Look Behind the Wall. New York Times: A18.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Thulborn 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Thompson and Orvig 2003, Thulborn 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Thompson and Orvig 2003)
Three or more authors: (Blewett et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pharmacia
ISSN (print)	0428-0296
ISSN (online)	2603-557X
Scope