How to format your references using the EPMA Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EPMA Journal. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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. Nowack B. Chemistry. Nanosilver revisited downstream. Science. 2010;330:1054–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bodner S, Paine C. When peer review fails. Nature. 2000;407:129–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Marimuthu A, Zhang J, Linic S. Tuning selectivity in propylene epoxidation by plasmon mediated photo-switching of Cu oxidation state. Science. 2013;339:1590–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Nakagawa T, Cheng Y, Ramm E, Sheng M, Walz T. Structure and different conformational states of native AMPA receptor complexes. Nature. 2005;433:545–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Khanlari R, Fard MS. FIDIC Plant and Design-Build Form of Contract Illustrated. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Gašević D. Model Driven Architecture and Ontology Development. Djurić D, Devedžić V, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chen W, Lu P, Sun X, Tang B, Wang Y, Zhu ZA. Optimal Pricing in Social Networks with Incomplete Information. In: Chen N, Elkind E, Koutsoupias E, editors. Internet and Network Economics: 7th International Workshop, WINE 2011, Singapore, December 11-14, 2011 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 49–60.

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 EPMA Journal.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Photographs of Baby Olinguitos Have Been Released [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/photographs-baby-olinguitos-have-been-released/

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. Sole-Source Contract Awards for Assembly of Radio Communication Systems, AN/GRC-142. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1970 Oct. Report No.: B-165004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Grether S. All You Need is Love? An Examination of Interracial Divorce [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2012.

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. Ahmed A, Nunez P, Blinder A. From Haiti to Florida, a Hurricane’s Trail of Disaster and Near Misses. New York Times. 2016 Oct 9;A24.

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	EPMA Journal
Abbreviation	EPMA J.
ISSN (print)	1878-5077
ISSN (online)	1878-5085
Scope	Biochemistry, medical Health Policy Drug Discovery