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 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

Alvarez, M., 2007. A question of supply and demand. Nature 445, 124.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cha, R.S., Kleckner, N., 2002. ATR homolog Mec1 promotes fork progression, thus averting breaks in replication slow zones. Science 297, 602–606.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gunn, L.J., Allison, A., Abbott, D., 2014. A directional wave measurement attack against the Kish key distribution system. Sci. Rep. 4, 6461.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Song, J., Chen, X., Wang, M., Xing, Y., Zheng, Z., Hu, S., 2014. Cardiac endothelial cell-derived exosomes induce specific regulatory B cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 7583.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bai, Q., Bai, Y., Ruan, W., 2017. Advances in Pipes and Pipelines. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sata, M. (Ed.), 2016. Mouse Models of Vascular Diseases, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Supriya, Siuly, Wang, H., Zhuo, G., Zhang, Y., 2016. Analyzing EEG Signal Data for Detection of Epileptic Seizure: Introducing Weight on Visibility Graph with Complex Network Feature, in: Cheema, M.A., Zhang, W., Chang, L. (Eds.), Databases Theory and Applications: 27th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2016, Sydney, NSW, September 28-29, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 56–66.

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

Davis, J., 2015. Blood Protein Could Predict Development of Alzheimer’s [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, 1975. National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Program Could Be Improved (No. FPCD-75-107). 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

Ponder, K., 2017. Easing Stress by Helping Others: How Corporate Volunteer Programs Impact the Stress of Employees Within an Organization (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Schwirtz, M., Winerip, M., 2015. Tunnels, Disguises and Sewers: A Prison’s Inmates Have Found Many Ways to Flee. New York Times A20.

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; Cha and Kleckner, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Cha and Kleckner, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Song et al., 2014)

About the journal

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