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

Smaglik, P. 2005. “Cultivating Black Gold.” Nature. 433(7027): 779.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tuthill, P.G., and J.P. Lloyd. 2007. “A Symmetric Bipolar Nebula around MWC 922.” Science (New York, N.Y.). 316(5822): 247.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bockrath, C., C. Ballhaus, and A. Holzheid. 2004. “Fractionation of the Platinum-Group Elements during Mantle Melting.” Science (New York, N.Y.). 305(5692): 1951–1953.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Zhang, Z., N. Xu, D.T.N. Chen, P. Yunker, A.M. Alsayed, K.B. Aptowicz, P. Habdas, A.J. Liu, S.R. Nagel, and A.G. Yodh. 2009. “Thermal Vestige of the Zero-Temperature Jamming Transition.” Nature. 459(7244): 230–233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lewin, M.D. 2007. Better Software Project Management: A Primer for Success. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., December 5.

An edited book

Hodicky, J., ed. 2016. Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems: Third International Workshop, MESAS 2016, Rome, Italy, June 15-16, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. . Vol. 9991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mayer, M.P. 2010. “Chaperones in the Morphogenesis of Viruses.” In Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Heat Shock Proteins in Infectious Disease, edited by A.G. Pockley, S.K. Calderwood, and M.G. Santoro. , pp.85–105. Heat Shock Proteins. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Carpineti, A. 2016. “Could Dark Matter Actually Just Be Black Holes?” 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. 2016. “Highlights of a Forum: Data and Analytics Innovation: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges.” GAO-16-659SP. 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

Holby, N. 2017. School Counselors and Their Experiences Implementing Comprehensive Programs. Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella University.

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

Kolomatsky, M. 2017. “Singles in the House.” New York Times, September 28.

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