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

Macarthur D. Methods: Face up to false positives. Nature. 2012;487:427–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Olivera BM, Teichert RW. Neuroscience: chemical ecology of pain. Nature. 2011;479:306–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hubbell JA, Thomas SN, Swartz MA. Materials engineering for immunomodulation. Nature. 2009;462:449–60.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rocks O, Peyker A, Kahms M, et al. An acylation cycle regulates localization and activity of palmitoylated Ras isoforms. Science. 2005;307:1746–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Qiuwei Wu. Grid Integration of Electric Vehicles in Open Electricity Markets. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2013.

An edited book

Hows D. The Definitive Guide to MongoDB: A complete guide to dealing with Big Data using MongoDB. Third Edition. Berkeley, CA: Apress 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Suzdalev IP, Maksimov YV. Critical sizes and characteristics of nanoclusters and nanostructures. In: Lippens P-E, Jumas J-C, Génin J-MR, eds. ICAME 2005: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ICAME 2005) held in Montpellier, France, 4–9 September 2005, Volume I (Part I–II/V). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2007:25–35.

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

Fang J. Neanderthal Diets Changed With Climate. Ours Didn’t. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/neanderthal-diets-changed-climate-ours-didnt/ (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. Global Positioning System: Significant Challenges in Sustaining and Upgrading Widely Used Capabilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Akers K. The Impact of Work-Family Conflict, Gender, and Family-Friendly Policies on Organizational Attractiveness and Job Pursuit Intentions. 2017.

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

Liptak A. Justices Reject 2 Districts In North Carolina, Citing Packing of Black Voters. New York Times. 2017;A18.

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