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

Becker, T., 2010. Geophysics. Fine-scale modeling of global plate tectonics. Science 329, 1020–1021.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tsuchiya, T., Eulgem, T., 2013. Mutations in EDM2 selectively affect silencing states of transposons and induce plant developmental plasticity. Sci. Rep. 3, 1701.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fiske, S.T., Harris, L.T., Cuddy, A.J.C., 2004. Social psychology. Why ordinary people torture enemy prisoners. Science 306, 1482–1483.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hellebrand, E., Snow, J.E., Dick, H.J., Hofmann, A.W., 2001. Coupled major and trace elements as indicators of the extent of melting in mid-ocean-ridge peridotites. Nature 410, 677–681.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gros, D., Lannoo, K., 2004. The Euro Capital Market. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Tan, Y., Shi, Y., Chai, Y., Wang, G. (Eds.), 2011. Advances in Swarm Intelligence: Second International Conference, ICSI 2011, Chongqing, China, June 12-15, 2011, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Serradell, E., Özuysal, M., Lepetit, V., Fua, P., Moreno-Noguer, F., 2010. Combining Geometric and Appearance Priors for Robust Homography Estimation, in: Daniilidis, K., Maragos, P., Paragios, N. (Eds.), Computer Vision – ECCV 2010: 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 5-11, 2010, Proceedings, Part III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 58–72.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Camera Develops Pictures With Algorithms, Not Lenses [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1972. Review of Accounts, CAB Through June 30, 1971 (No. 092436). 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

Gindin, M., 2012. Identification and Characterization of Putative Secreted Proteins from the Adult-Stage Hookworm, Ancylostoma caninum (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Saslow, L., 2006. For $37.5 Million, the Piano Man’s Estate. New York Times 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Becker, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Becker, 2010; Tsuchiya and Eulgem, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Tsuchiya and Eulgem, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Hellebrand et al., 2001)

About the journal

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