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. Bradner JE. Cancer: An essential passenger with p53. Nature. 2015;520:626–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bienz M, He X. Biochemistry. A lipid linchpin for Wnt-Fz docking. Science. 2012;337:44–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. McKnight S, Beyer A, Gall J. Retrospective. Oscar Miller (1925-2012). Science. 2012;335:1457.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Syntichaki P, Xu K, Driscoll M, Tavernarakis N. Specific aspartyl and calpain proteases are required for neurodegeneration in C. elegans. Nature. 2002;419:939–44.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Maini AK, Agrawal V. Satellite Technology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Koyamada K, Tamura S, Ono O, editors. Systems Modeling and Simulation: Theory and Applications, Asia Simulation Conference 2006. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sultana A, Cox T, Ghaneh P, Neoptolemos JP. Adjuvant Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer. In: Otto F, Lutz MP, editors. Early Gastrointestinal Cancers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 65–88.

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. Andrew E. Researchers Discover Vaccine-Resistant Polio Strain [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-discover-vaccine-resistant-polio-strain/

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. Airline Competition: Fares and Concentration at Small-City Airports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Jan. Report No.: RCED-91-51.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Daly KM. Cinema 3.0: How digital and computer technologies are changing cinema [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2008.

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. Kelly D. STEAL THIS REVIEW. New York Times. 1990 Mar 11;719.

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