How to format your references using the European Journal of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics. 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. Gleick PH. Global freshwater resources: soft-path solutions for the 21st century. Science. 2003;302:1524–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Starr DA, Han M. Role of ANC-1 in tethering nuclei to the actin cytoskeleton. Science. 2002;298:406–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Jia S, Noma K-I, Grewal SIS. RNAi-independent heterochromatin nucleation by the stress-activated ATF/CREB family proteins. Science. 2004;304:1971–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Környei Z, Beke S, Mihálffy T, Jelitai M, Kovács KJ, Szabó Z, et al. Cell sorting in a Petri dish controlled by computer vision. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1088.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Pruitt G. The Ultimate Algorithmic Trading System Toolbox + Website. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

1. Allaire G. Numerical Linear Algebra. Kaber SM, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Agoshkov VI, Kamenschikov LP, Karepova ED, Shaidurov VV. Numerical Solution of Some Direct and Inverse Mathematical Problems for Tidal Flows. In: Krause E, Shokin YI, Resch M, Shokina N, editors. Computational Science and High Performance Computing III: The 3rd Russian-German Advanced Research Workshop, Novosibirsk, Russia, July 23 - 27, 2007. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 31–43.

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 European Journal of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Some Earth-Like Exoplanets May Have Started as Mini-Neptunes [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/some-earthlike-exoplanets-may-have-started-mini-neptunes/

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. Direct Student Loans: Analyses of Borrowers’ Use of the Income Contingent Repayment Option. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Aug. Report No.: HEHS-97-155.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hoch VA. The Effects of Systematic Reinforcement on Academic Performance in Precision Teaching: An Investigation of Acquisition, Retention, and Endurance [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2014.

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. Pilon M. Table Tennis Beside a Bank, and Other Contests Intended to ‘Reclaim’ Midtown. New York Times. 2012 May 19;D6.

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	European Journal of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Drug Metab. Pharmacokinet.
ISSN (print)	0378-7966
ISSN (online)	2107-0180
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology