How to format your references using the European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics citation style

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

[1]

S. Wain-Hobson, H5N1 viral-engineering dangers will not go away, Nature 495 (2013) 411.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B. Ize, T. Palmer, Microbiology. Mycobacteria’s export strategy, Science 313 (2006) 1583–1584.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Pertsinidis, Y. Zhang, S. Chu, Subnanometre single-molecule localization, registration and distance measurements, Nature 466 (2010) 647–651.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.D. Maladen, Y. Ding, C. Li, D.I. Goldman, Undulatory swimming in sand: subsurface locomotion of the sandfish lizard, Science 325 (2009) 314–318.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Weinberg, Cost-Contained Regulatory Compliance, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

A. Tao, E. Raz, eds., Allergy Bioinformatics, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Franco, Globalizzazione e politiche dell’energia: prospettive e motivi di incertezza, in: A.M. Rossi (Ed.), Effetti, Potenzialità e Limiti Della Globalizzazione: Una Visione Multidisciplinare, Springer, Milano, 2007: pp. 45–63.

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 Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, We Created A New Material From Orange Peel That Can Clean Up Mercury Pollution, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/we-created-new-material-orange-peel-can-clean-mercury-pollution/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Office of Telecommunications Policy’s Contract for a Publication on Intercepting Electronic Communications, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Hao, An Introduction to Discrete Minimal Surfaces via the Enneper Surface, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 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

[1]

J. Wagner, Once Damaged Goods, Mets Reliever Returns to the Top Shelf, New York Times (2016) B10.

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 Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Pharm. Biopharm.
ISSN (print)	0939-6411
Scope	Biotechnology General Medicine Pharmaceutical Science