How to format your references using the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Kerrick D. Geology. Serpentinite seduction. Science. 2002;298:1344–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rieseberg LH, Willis JH. Plant speciation. Science. 2007;317:910–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Abundo C, Monterola C, Legara EF. Criticality of forcing directions on the fragmentation and resilience of grid networks. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6195.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wu J, Liu Z, Huang G, et al. Response of soil respiration and ecosystem carbon budget to vegetation removal in Eucalyptus plantations with contrasting ages. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6262.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prutchi D, Norris M. Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004.

An edited book

Fricker G, Ott M, Mahringer A, editors. The Blood Brain Barrier (BBB). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Butler C. Applied Behavioral Economics: A Game Designer’s Perspective. In: Reiners T, Wood LC, eds. Gamification in Education and Business. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2015:81–104.

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 Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin.

Blog post

Fang J. Researchers Use Magnets to Control Heat. IFLScience. 2015.

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. Airport Finance: Using Airport Grant Funds for Security Projects Has Affected Some Development Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Torres C. Grassroots in Santa Ana: Identity and conceptualizing community. 2013.

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

Greenhouse L. The Roberts Court, Version 4.0. New York Times. 2010;WK10.

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	Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
Abbreviation	Drug Ther. Bull.
ISSN (print)	0012-6543
ISSN (online)	1755-5248
Scope	General Medicine Pharmacology (medical)