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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Brumfiel, G., 2003. US societies unite in plea for boost to research budgets. Nature 421, 100.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bian, Y., Gong, Q., 2014. Tuning the hybridization of plasmonic and coupled dielectric nanowire modes for high-performance optical waveguiding at sub-diffraction-limited scale. Sci. Rep. 4, 6617.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reinhard, J., Srinivasan, M.V., Zhang, S., 2004. Olfaction: scent-triggered navigation in honeybees. Nature 427, 411.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, Y.-K., Sheng, G.-P., Shi, B.-J., Li, W.-W., Yu, H.-Q., 2013. A novel electrochemical membrane bioreactor as a potential net energy producer for sustainable wastewater treatment. Sci. Rep. 3, 1864.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Korhonen, J., Savolainen, T., Soininen, J., 2013. Deploying IPv6 in 3GPP Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Kosmidou, K., Doumpos, M., Zopounidis, C. (Eds.), 2008. Country Risk Evaluation, Springer Optimization and Its Applications. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Vaidya, A., Husain, S., Mannem, P., Sharma, D.M., 2009. A Karaka Based Annotation Scheme for English, in: Gelbukh, A. (Ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 10th International Conference, CICLing 2009, Mexico City, Mexico, March 1-7, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 41–52.

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 Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Magic Mushrooms Shown To Ease Severe Depression In Groundbreaking Study [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/magic-mushrooms-shown-ease-severe-depression-groundbreaking-study/ (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, 2007. Aviation Security: Cost Estimates Related to TSA Funding of Checked Baggage Screening Systems at Los Angeles and Ontario Airports (No. GAO-07-445). 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

Xiong, Y., 2008. Immuno-Magnetic T Cell Depletion for Allogeneic Hematological Stem Cell Transplantation (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Kolomatsky, M., 2017. Where Are Homes Being Built? New York Times RE2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brumfiel, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bian and Gong, 2014; Brumfiel, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Bian and Gong, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Pharm. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0928-0987
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science