How to format your references using the Results in Pharma Sciences citation style

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

[1]

M. Eisenstein, Disease: Closing the door on HIV, Nature 528 (2015) S8-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Brookes, E. Etkina, SPORE series winner. Physical phenomena in real time, Science 330 (2010) 605–606.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Shen, A.H. Knoll, M.R. Walter, Evidence for low sulphate and anoxia in a mid-Proterozoic marine basin, Nature 423 (2003) 632–635.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Walther, K.J. Resch, T. Rudolph, E. Schenck, H. Weinfurter, V. Vedral, M. Aspelmeyer, A. Zeilinger, Experimental one-way quantum computing, Nature 434 (2005) 169–176.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Kramer-Moore, M. Moore, Destructive Myths in Family Therapy, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

O. Gasquet, Kripke’s Worlds: An Introduction to Modal Logics via Tableaux, Springer, Basel, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

I. Forieri, R. Hell, Micronutrient Use Efficiency – Cell Biology of Iron and Its Metabolic Interactions in Plants, in: M.J. Hawkesford, S. Kopriva, L.J. De Kok (Eds.), Nutrient Use Efficiency in Plants: Concepts and Approaches, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 133–152.

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 Results in Pharma Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, A Bizarre and Unique Type of Eye Discovered, IFLScience (2014).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, ADP Acquisitions: No Improper Actions Found on IRS’ Contract for Data Retrieval System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Perkins, “Inside of each story was a piece of my story”: Applied folklore addressing stigma around perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 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

[1]

J. Poniewozik, The Eve of Destruction, as Seen on TV, New York Times (2017) C1.

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	Results in Pharma Sciences
Abbreviation	Results Pharma Sci.
ISSN (print)	2211-2863
Scope	LPN and LVN Pharmaceutical Science Education Law Sociology and Political Science