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

Stock J. Geophysics. Hotspots come unstuck. Science. 2003;301:1059–60.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin TJ, Mundy GR. Bone metastasis: can osteoclasts be excluded? Nature. 2007;445:E19; discussion E19-20.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hanada K-I, Yewdell JW, Yang JC. Immune recognition of a human renal cancer antigen through post-translational protein splicing. Nature. 2004;427:252–6.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hubler Z, Allimuthu D, Bederman I, et al. Accumulation of 8,9-unsaturated sterols drives oligodendrocyte formation and remyelination. Nature. 2018;560:372–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cauvin C, Escobar F, Serradj A. Thematic Cartography and Transformations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2013.

An edited book

Issar AS. Climate Change —: Environment and History of the Near East. 2nd Edition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Bambi C, Dolgov AD. Kinetics and Thermodynamics in Cosmology. In: Dolgov AD, ed. Introduction to Particle Cosmology: The Standard Model of Cosmology and its Open Problems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2016:71–92.

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

Hale T. ‘Earth As Art’ Series Reveals The Beauty Of Our Planet. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earth-art-series-shows-beauty-earths-landscapes/ (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. Public Education: Commercial Activities in Schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kraynik MJ. Perceptions of U.S. Navy managers toward telecommuting as a management approach: A phenomenological study. 2009.

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

Kelly RW. Washington’s Secret Gun Files. New York Times. 2007;A13.

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