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

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

Alvarez, M., 2007. System-ready scientists. Nature 447, 612.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berenbaum, M.R., Eisner, T., 2008. Ecology. Bugs’ bugs. Science 322, 52–53.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gitlin, L., Karelsky, S., Andino, R., 2002. Short interfering RNA confers intracellular antiviral immunity in human cells. Nature 418, 430–434.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Basu, T., Iyer, K.K., Singh, K., Sampathkumaran, E.V., 2013. Novel dielectric anomalies due to spin-chains above and below Néel temperature in Ca3Co2O6. Sci. Rep. 3, 3104.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee, 2005. Continuous Direct-Heat Rotary Dryers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zhang, H., 2010. Recursive Partitioning and Applications, Second. ed, Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Koski, S.E., 2011. How to Measure Animal Personality and Why Does It Matter? Integrating the Psychological and Biological Approaches to Animal Personality, in: Inoue-Murayama, M., Kawamura, S., Weiss, A. (Eds.), From Genes to Animal Behavior: Social Structures, Personalities, Communication by Color, Primatology Monographs. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 115–136.

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 Pharmacology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2015. 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Penises [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-p/ (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, 2003. Electronic Government: Challenges to the Adoption of Smart Card Technology (No. GAO-03-1108T). 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

Chappel, A.M., 2012. A Longitudinal Investigation of Stress, Complete Mental Health, and Social Support among High School Students (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Gustines, G.G., 2013. She’s Mighty, Muslim and Leaping Off the Page. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alvarez, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Alvarez, 2007; Berenbaum and Eisner, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Berenbaum and Eisner, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Basu et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Pharmacol.
ISSN (print)	0014-2999
Scope	Pharmacology