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

Lutz S. Biochemistry. Reengineering enzymes. Science 2010;329:285–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Svetlizky I, Fineberg J. Classical shear cracks drive the onset of dry frictional motion. Nature 2014;509:205–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang J, Lu H, Huang L. Calciphytoliths (calcium oxalate crystals) analysis for the identification of decayed tea plants (Camellia sinensis L.). Sci Rep 2014;4:6703.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sañudo-Wilhelmy SA, Kustka AB, Gobler CJ, et al. Phosphorus limitation of nitrogen fixation by Trichodesmium in the central Atlantic Ocean. Nature 2001;411:66–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matignon R. Data Mining Using SAS® Enterprise Miner^TM. Hoboken, NJ: : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007.

An edited book

Simon RI. Valutazione e gestione della violenza: Manuale per operatori della salute mentale. Milano: : Springer 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Purkayastha BB, Sarma KK. Basic Considerations of PLL and Its Types. In: Sarma KK, ed. A Digital Phase Locked Loop based Signal and Symbol Recovery System for Wireless Channel. New Delhi: : Springer India 2015. 89–101.

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

Andrew E. Russian Company Announces It Is Planning To Build A Lunar Base. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/space/russian-company-announces-it-planning-build-lunar-base/ (accessed 30 Oct 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. Digital Television Transition: Information on the Implementation of the Converter Box Subsidy Program and Consumer Participation in the Program. Washington, DC: : U.S. Government Printing Office 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Coyle M. Pre-Service School Counselor’s Perception of Professional Identity Development During Internship. 2017.

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

Chira S. Cosby Is the Man on Trial. But So Are Power Dynamics. New York Times. 2017;:C1.

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)

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