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 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

[1]

D. Butler, China rejects internet claims of human cases, Nature 435 (2005) 542–543.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.M. Deuker, M. McMahon, Cancer biology: Enzyme meets a surprise target, Nature 510 (2014) 225–226.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.W. Chisholm, P.G. Falkowski, J.J. Cullen, Oceans. Dis-crediting ocean fertilization, Science 294 (2001) 309–310.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

U. Sweere, K. Eichenberg, J. Lohrmann, V. Mira-Rodado, I. Bäurle, J. Kudla, F. Nagy, E. Schafer, K. Harter, Interaction of the response regulator ARR4 with phytochrome B in modulating red light signaling, Science 294 (2001) 1108–1111.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.G. Speight, Handbook of Petroleum Product Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

B. Scherer, Introduction to Modern Portfolio optimization with NUOPT and S-PLUS, Springer, New York, NY, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Qu, N. Brooijmans, Structure-Based Drug Design, in: Y. Xu, D. Xu, J. Liang (Eds.), Computational Methods for Protein Structure Prediction and Modeling: Volume 2: Structure Prediction, Springer, New York, NY, 2007: pp. 135–176.

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, Ancient Exoplanet Discovery Boosts Chances Of Finding Alien Life, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/ancient-exoplanet-discovery-boosts-chances-finding-alien-life/ (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, HHS-Supported Research on Violence Prevention, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. Robertson, Forging a New World Nationalism: Ancient Mexico in United States art and visual culture, 1933–1945, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2012.

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]

A. Currie, H. Dixon, G. Hay, Auto Sales Defy The Statistics, New York Times (2010) B2.

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