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

Seife, C. 2000. “ASTRONOMY: Brown Dwarf’s Flare Opens X-Ray Eyes.” Science (New York, N.Y.). 289(5478): 373a–4a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sincich, L.C., and J.C. Horton. 2002. “Divided by Cytochrome Oxidase: A Map of the Projections from V1 to V2 in Macaques.” Science (New York, N.Y.). 295(5560): 1734–1737.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gauld, S.B., J.M. Dal Porto, and J.C. Cambier. 2002. “B Cell Antigen Receptor Signaling: Roles in Cell Development and Disease.” Science (New York, N.Y.). 296(5573): 1641–1642.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Finney, B.P., I. Gregory-Eaves, M.S.V. Douglas, and J.P. Smol. 2002. “Fisheries Productivity in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean over the Past 2,200 Years.” Nature. 416(6882): 729–733.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moskowitz, H.R., A.M. Muñoz, and M.C. Gacula Jr. 2008. Viewpoints and Controversies in Sensory Science and Consumer Product Testing. Trumbull, Connecticut, USA: Food & Nutrition Press, Inc., April 16.

An edited book

Martini, I.P., and W. Chesworth, ed. 2011. Landscapes and Societies: Selected Cases. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Sobotka, P.A., D.G. Harrison, and M. Fudim. 2015. “The Endpoint on Measuring the Clinical Effects of Renal Denervation: What Are the Best Surrogates.” In Renal Denervation: A New Approach to Treatment of Resistant Hypertension, edited by R.R. Heuser, M. Schlaich, and H. Sievert. , pp.25–43. London: 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. 2014. “Solar Roads Could Power An Entire Country.” 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. 2002. “Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes.” GAO-02-379R. 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

Carter, C.A. 2008. The Panhellenic Project: Assessing Learning Engagement Using Web 2.0 Technologies. Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Haberman, M., and R. Pear. 2017. “Trump Jumps In, Trying to Propel Health Care Bill.” New York Times, March 9.

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