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

Smaglik, P., 2004. Stem-cell state lines. Nature 429, 905.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mendelson, T.C., Shaw, K.L., 2005. Sexual behaviour: rapid speciation in an arthropod. Nature 433, 375–376.

A journal article with 3 authors

Naundorf, B., Wolf, F., Volgushev, M., 2006. Unique features of action potential initiation in cortical neurons. Nature 440, 1060–1063.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Budrovic, Z., Van Swygenhoven, H., Derlet, P.M., Van Petegem, S., Schmitt, B., 2004. Plastic deformation with reversible peak broadening in nanocrystalline nickel. Science 304, 273–276.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lehto, J., Hou, X., 2010. Chemistry and Analysis of Radionuclides. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Malferrari, G., 2014. Neurosonological Evaluation of Cerebral Venous Outflow: An Ultrasound Atlas. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

Lehmann, K., Schneider, P.M., 2010. Differences in the Molecular Biology of Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagus, Gastric Cardia, and Upper Gastric Third, in: Schneider, P.M. (Ed.), Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagogastric Junction, Recent Results in Cancer Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 65–72.

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

Fang, J., 2015. Court Recognizes Chimpanzees As Legal Persons [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chimps-will-have-their-day-court/ (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, 2014. Transportation Security Information Sharing: Stakeholder Satisfaction Varies; TSA Could Take Additional Actions to Strengthen Efforts (No. GAO-14-506). 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

Klooster, E.C.-R., 2010. Identifying differences in student traditionalities of remedial math students, adjusted for efficacy (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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. Putting the Pan in Pan-American. New York Times 14LI8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Mendelson and Shaw, 2005; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Mendelson and Shaw, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Budrovic et al., 2004)

About the journal

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