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

Sloboda J. Q&A: Melodic psychologist. Interview by Jascha Hoffman. Nature. 2014;506:433.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schultz DM, Yoon TP. Solar synthesis: prospects in visible light photocatalysis. Science. 2014;343:1239176.

A journal article with 3 authors

Phillips NR, Sprouse ML, Roby RK. Simultaneous quantification of mitochondrial DNA copy number and deletion ratio: a multiplex real-time PCR assay. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3887.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Meier MF, Dyurgerov MB, Rick UK, et al. Glaciers dominate eustatic sea-level rise in the 21st century. Science. 2007;317:1064–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Neff DJ, Moss RC. The Future of Nonprofits. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011.

An edited book

Partida A. IT Security Management: IT Securiteers - Setting up an IT Security Function. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Frey H, Rührup S, Stojmenović I. Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Misra SC, Woungang I, Misra S, eds. Guide to Wireless Sensor Networks. London: Springer 2009:81–111.

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. Offshore Wind Farms Guard Landscape Against Hurricanes. IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/offshore-wind-farms-guard-landscape-against-hurricanes/ (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. School Technology: Five School Districts’ Experiences in Financing Technology Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bono S. Perceptions of Psychological Abuse and the Impact of Blame and Gender Role Beliefs. 2013.

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

Poniewozik J. A Debate? Or Rivals Just Trying to Go Viral? New York Times. 2016;A15.

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