How to format your references using the Pharmacology citation style

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

Maquat LE. Molecular biology. Skiing toward nonstop mRNA decay. Science. 2002 Mar;295(5563):2221–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reczek CR, Chandel NS. CANCER. Revisiting vitamin C and cancer. Science. 2015 Dec;350(6266):1317–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Segawa Y, Yamashita M, Nozaki K. Boryllithium: isolation, characterization, and reactivity as a boryl anion. Science. 2006 Oct;314(5796):113–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Baublitz M, Lane C, Lin H, Hafiz H, Markiewicz RS, Barbiellini B, et al. A Minimal tight-binding model for ferromagnetic canted bilayer manganites. Sci Rep. 2014 Dec;4:7512.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sigee DC. Freshwater Microbiology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Chew E, Childs A, Chuan C-H, editors. Mathematics and Computation in Music: Second International Conference, MCM 2009, John Clough Memorial Conference New Haven, CT, USA, June 19-22, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Huber B. The Role of Universities in Society. In: Liu NC, Cheng Y, Wang Q, editors. Matching Visibility and Performance: A Standing Challenge for World-Class Universities. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2016; pp 91–9.

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 Pharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Deadliest Superbugs Are Not The Most Toxic, New Study Shows [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Sep

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. National Science Foundation: Better Use of Existing Resources Could Improve Program Administration. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Collette JC. Validation of the tgFgfr1-EGFP Mouse Line as a Tool to Study Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 1 Cellular Localization and Expression After Experimental Manipulations. 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

Loomis G. Bringing Fresh Interpretations to Vintage Verdi and Handel. New York Times. 2013 Jan;0.

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	Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Pharmacology
ISSN (print)	0031-7012
ISSN (online)	1423-0313
Scope	General Medicine Pharmacology