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

Norreys PA. Physics. Complexity in fusion plasmas. Science. 2008;319:1193–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trachenko K, Brazhkin VV. Duality of liquids. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2188.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ross RJ, Weiner MM, Lin H. PIWI proteins and PIWI-interacting RNAs in the soma. Nature. 2014;505:353–9.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lejeusne C, Saunier A, Petit N, et al. High genetic diversity and absence of founder effects in a worldwide aquatic invader. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5808.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lutzke D. Surfen in die digitale Zukunft. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA 2012.

An edited book

Olver IN, editor. The MASCC Textbook of Cancer Supportive Care and Survivorship. Boston, MA: Springer US 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

DeFelipe J, Alonso-Nanclares L. The Synapse: Differences Between Men and Women. In: Pfaff DW, Christen Y, eds. Multiple Origins of Sex Differences in Brain: Neuroendocrine Functions and their Pathologies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2013:43–57.

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

Luntz S. Are Your Bacteria Making You Fat? IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/are-your-bacteria-making-you-fat/ (accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. Advanced Technologies: Strengthened Federal Approach Needed to Help Identify and Mitigate Supply Risks for Critical Raw Materials. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Briseno AR. Improving school performance through family involvement: A grant project. 2015.

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

Higgins A. Trump’s Putin: Strength Seen as Top Virtue. New York Times. 2016;A1.

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)