How to format your references using the European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 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	Download the output style file
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

Cottrell, G.W., 2006. Computer science. New life for neural networks. Science 313, 454–455.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kropman, M.F., Bakker, H.J., 2001. Dynamics of water molecules in aqueous solvation shells. Science 291, 2118–2120.

A journal article with 3 authors

Izawa, Y., Pun, D., Stahl, S.S., 2011. Palladium-catalyzed aerobic dehydrogenation of substituted cyclohexanones to phenols. Science 333, 209–213.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Monteiro, J.M., Pereira, A.R., Reichmann, N.T., Saraiva, B.M., Fernandes, P.B., Veiga, H., Tavares, A.C., Santos, M., Ferreira, M.T., Macário, V., VanNieuwenhze, M.S., Filipe, S.R., Pinho, M.G., 2018. Peptidoglycan synthesis drives an FtsZ-treadmilling-independent step of cytokinesis. Nature 554, 528–532.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gardi, F., Benoist, T., Darlay, J., Estellon, B., Megel, R., 2014. Mathematical Programming Solver Based on Local Search. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Leonardis, A., Bischof, H., Pinz, A. (Eds.), 2006. Computer Vision – ECCV 2006: 9th European Conference on Computer Vision, Graz, Austria, May 7-13, 2006, Proceedings, Part III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Borwein, J.M., Burachik, R.S., Yao, L., 2013. Monotone Operators Without Enlargements, in: Bailey, D.H., Bauschke, H.H., Borwein, P., Garvan, F., Théra, M., Vanderwerff, J.D., Wolkowicz, H. (Eds.), Computational and Analytical Mathematics: In Honor of Jonathan Borwein’s 60th Birthday, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 79–103.

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 Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. Citizen Scientists Find Five New Supernovae [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/volunteers-find-five-supernovae-0/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2016. Motor Carriers: Establishing System for Self-Reporting Equipment Problems Appears Feasible, but Safety Benefits Questionable and Costs Unknown (No. GAO-17-132). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Voma, S.K., 2017. Design of Power Management Circuit for Energy Harvesting Applications (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Cooper, M., 2017. Fixing Geffen Hall? Ask Ohio. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Cottrell, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Cottrell, 2006; Kropman and Bakker, 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Kropman and Bakker, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Monteiro et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Pharm. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0928-0987
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science