How to format your references using the Research Results in Pharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research Results in 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	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

Kostelecký VA (2014) Precision measurement: The magnetic proton. Nature 509: 571–572.

A journal article with 2 authors

Victor DG, Kennel CF (2014) Climate policy: Ditch the 2 °C warming goal. Nature 514: 30–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

Agrawal T, Schu P, Medigeshi GR (2013) Adaptor protein complexes-1 and 3 are involved at distinct stages of flavivirus life-cycle. Scientific reports 3: 1813.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bhargava V, Head SR, Ordoukhanian P, Mercola M, Subramaniam S (2014) Technical variations in low-input RNA-seq methodologies. Scientific reports 4: 3678.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Peter M, Scheer C (2015) Holzbau-Taschenbuch. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Abraham D, Clive H, Dashwood M, Coghlan G (Eds) (2010) Advances in Vascular Medicine. Springer, London, XVIII, 451 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Schmidt J-M, Plos T, Kirschbaum M, Hutter M, Medwed M, Herbst C (2010) Side-Channel Leakage across Borders. In: Gollmann D, Lanet J-L, Iguchi-Cartigny J (Eds), Smart Card Research and Advanced Application: 9th IFIP WG 8.8/11.2 International Conference, CARDIS 2010, Passau, Germany, April 14-16, 2010. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 36–48.

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 Research Results in Pharmacology.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) 7,000-Year-Old Lost Egyptian City Found By Archaeologists. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/7000yearold-lost-egyptian-city-found-by-archaeologists/ (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 (1992) Space Station: NASA’s Software Development Approach Increases Safety and Cost Risks. 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

Potter RH (2017) Marx Generator Charged via Biperiodic Resonant Cascaded Transformers. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University

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

Schwirtz M, Winerip M (2015) In Beatings, Inmates Feared a ‘Captain America.’ New York Times: A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kostelecký 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kostelecký 2014, Victor and Kennel 2014).

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

Two authors: (Victor and Kennel 2014)
Three or more authors: (Bhargava et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research Results in Pharmacology
ISSN (online)	2658-381X
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