How to format your references using the European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy. 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

Theissen G. Secret life of genes. Nature. 2002;415:741.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blondin JM, Mezzacappa A. Pulsar spins from an instability in the accretion shock of supernovae. Nature. 2007;445:58–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

Walsh KJ, Richardson DC, Michel P. Rotational breakup as the origin of small binary asteroids. Nature. 2008;454:188–91.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xiao S, Ellwood S, Calis O, et al. Broad-spectrum mildew resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana mediated by RPW8. Science. 2001;291:118–20.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reiman J. As Free and as Just as Possible. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell 2012.

An edited book

Peron R, Colpi M, Gorini V, et al., editors. Gravity: Where Do We Stand? 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Modaressi H, Desramaut N, Gehl P. Specification of the Vulnerability of Physical Systems. In: Pitilakis K, Franchin P, Khazai B, et al., eds. SYNER-G: Systemic Seismic Vulnerability and Risk Assessment of Complex Urban, Utility, Lifeline Systems and Critical Facilities: Methodology and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands 2014:131–84.

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 Hospital Pharmacy.

Blog post

Luntz S. A Girl Left Her Contacts In For 6 Months And Amoebas Ate Her Eyeballs. IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/girl-left-her-contacts-6-months-and-amoebas-ate-her-eyeballs/ (accessed 30 October 2018)

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

Government Accountability Office. Biosurveillance: Observations on the Cancellation of BioWatch Gen-3 and Future Considerations for the Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chitakasempornkul K. Ordinal time series analysis for Air Quality Index (AQI) in San Bernardino County. 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

Oestreich JR. A Man on a Mission, and Then Another. New York Times. 2017;AR8.

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 Hospital Pharmacy
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Hosp. Pharm. Sci. Pract.
ISSN (print)	2047-9956
ISSN (online)	2047-9964
Scope	General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics