Reference Guide for Pharmacy Students  

This guide is based on the AMA Manual of Style:  A Guide for Authors and Editors.  There are many correct ways to list references or citations; this guide will provide a standardized format to use throughout the professional program.

• List references as superscripts at the end of sentences or phrases.  Example.^1,3-5,8
• List author names with the author’s last name followed by initials, no periods.  Example:  Sheehan AH, Killion VJ.
• Retain the spelling, abbreviations, and style for numbers used in the original article title, book title, parts of book, or other material.
• For journal article titles and chapter titles in books, capitalize only the first letter of the first word in a title and subtitle.
• For journal titles and book titles, capitalize all main words.
• Do not use quotation marks.
• Reference the most specific part when possible (i.e., cite the monograph within the online database, not the entire database or cite the chapter within book.)

AH Sheehan; VJ Killion
revised August 2012