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]

V. Ambros, The functions of animal microRNAs, Nature 431 (2004) 350–355.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.M. Wellik, M.R. Capecchi, Hox10 and Hox11 genes are required to globally pattern the mammalian skeleton, Science 301 (2003) 363–367.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Fleurquin, J.J. Ramasco, V.M. Eguiluz, Systemic delay propagation in the US airport network, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1159.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. Sansone, F. Kelkensberg, J.F. Pérez-Torres, F. Morales, M.F. Kling, W. Siu, O. Ghafur, P. Johnsson, M. Swoboda, E. Benedetti, F. Ferrari, F. Lépine, J.L. Sanz-Vicario, S. Zherebtsov, I. Znakovskaya, A. L’huillier, M.Y. Ivanov, M. Nisoli, F. Martín, M.J.J. Vrakking, Electron localization following attosecond molecular photoionization, Nature 465 (2010) 763–766.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ö. Ergül, L. Gürel, The Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm (MLFMA) for Solving Large-Scale Computational Electromagnetics Problems, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

R. Dijkman, J. Hofstetter, J. Koehler, eds., Business Process Model and Notation: Third International Workshop, BPMN 2011, Lucerne, Switzerland, November 21-22, 2011. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

U. Redmond, M. Harrigan, P. Cunningham, Mining Dense Structures to Uncover Anomalous Behaviour in Financial Network Data, in: M. Atzmueller, A. Chin, D. Helic, A. Hotho (Eds.), Modeling and Mining Ubiquitous Social Media: International Workshops MSM 2011, Boston, MA, USA, October 9, 2011, and MUSE 2011, Athens, Greece, September 5, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 60–76.

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, These Two Cheap Drugs Could Cut Breast Cancer Deaths, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/these-two-cheap-drugs-could-cut-breast-cancer-deaths/ (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, Aviation Security: Actions Needed to Address Challenges and Potential Vulnerabilities Related to Securing Inbound Air Cargo, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.B. Carman, Leadership style and church attendance: An ex post facto study of Churches of Christ in Texas, Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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.L. Dorman, Damien Chazelle on Los Angeles and Its Charms, New York Times (2017) TR2.

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