How to format your references using the Drug Development Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Drug Development Research. 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 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

Adams, W.M. 2014. “Conservation. The Value of Valuing Nature.” Science (New York, N.Y.). 346(6209): 549–551.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mettetal, J.T., and A. van Oudenaarden. 2007. “Microbiology. Necessary Noise.” Science (New York, N.Y.). 317(5837): 463–464.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, H.K., G.W. Hanson, and D.A. Geller. 2013. “Chemistry. Are Gold Clusters in RF Fields Hot or Not?” Science (New York, N.Y.). 340(6131): 441–442.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Zheng, Y., H. Ren, W. Wan, and X. Chen. 2013. “Time-Reversed Wave Mixing in Nonlinear Optics.” Scientific reports. 3: 3245.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lincoln, N.B., I.I. Kneebone, J.A.B. Macniven, and R.C. Morris. 2011. Psychological Management of Stroke. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, November 25.

An edited book

Panasyuk, V.V. 2014. Injection Technologies for the Repair of Damaged Concrete Structures. Edited by V.I. Marukha and V.P. Sylovanyuk. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Caspi, P., A. Benveniste, R. Lublinerman, and S. Tripakis. 2009. “Actors without Directors: A Kahnian View of Heterogeneous Systems.” In Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control: 12th International Conference, HSCC 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 13-15, 2009. Proceedings, edited by R. Majumdar and P. Tabuada. , pp.46–60. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Development Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. “2014, The Year That Was: Health + Medicine.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1990. “Air Force ADP Procurement: Contracting and Market Share Information.” IMTEC-90-35FS. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ortiz-Quiusky, S. 2015. Substance Abuse, Smoking, and Depression among Military Veterans. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Healy, J., and N. Fandos. 2016. “Protesters Gain Victory in Fight Over Oil Pipeline.” New York Times, December 4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Drug Development Research
Abbreviation	Drug Dev. Res.
ISSN (print)	0272-4391
ISSN (online)	1098-2299
Scope	Drug Discovery