How to format your references using the Pharmacological Reviews citation style

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

Nilsen TW (2014) Molecular biology. Internal mRNA methylation finally finds functions. Science 343:1207–1208.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shen B, and Goodman HM (2004) Uridine addition after microRNA-directed cleavage. Science 306:997.

A journal article with 3 authors

Olff H, Ritchie ME, and Prins HHT (2002) Global environmental controls of diversity in large herbivores. Nature 415:901–904.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Braine J, Lisenfeld U, Duc PA, Leon S, and Due PA (2000) Formation of molecular gas in the tidal debris of violent galaxy-galaxy interactions. Nature 403:867–869.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Das JC (2017) Understanding Symmetrical Components for Power System Modeling, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mitton N, Gallais A, Kantarci ME, and Papavassiliou S (eds) (2014) Ad Hoc Networks: 6th International ICST Conference, ADHOCNETS 2014, Rhodes, Greece, August 18-19, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Stoian R, Wollenhaupt M, Baumert T, and Hertel IV (2010) Temporal Pulse Tailoring in Ultrafast Laser Manufacturing Technologies, in Laser Precision Microfabrication (Sugioka K, Meunier M, and Piqué A eds) pp 121–144, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Pharmacological Reviews.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Drone Captures Amazing Footage Of A Tornado, IFLScience.

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 (1984) Many Proprietary Schools Do Not Comply With Department of Education’s Pell Grant Program Requirements, 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

Wilson P (2015) A Case Study of the Efficacy of Middle College on Educational Advancement, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Greenhouse L (2006) Supreme Court Set to Weigh Central Election-Law Issues.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nilsen, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Shen and Goodman, 2004; Nilsen, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Shen and Goodman, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Braine et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Pharmacological Reviews
Abbreviation	Pharmacol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0031-6997
ISSN (online)	1521-0081
Scope	Molecular Medicine Pharmacology