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

Campisi, J. 2005. “Suppressing Cancer: The Importance of Being Senescent.” Science (New York, N.Y.). 309(5736): 886–887.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moscou, M.J., and A.J. Bogdanove. 2009. “A Simple Cipher Governs DNA Recognition by TAL Effectors.” Science (New York, N.Y.). 326(5959): 1501.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bryden, H.L., H.R. Longworth, and S.A. Cunningham. 2005. “Slowing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 25 Degrees N.” Nature. 438(7068): 655–657.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Astle, A.T., R.W. Li, B.S. Webb, D.M. Levi, and P.V. McGraw. 2013. “A Weber-like Law for Perceptual Learning.” Scientific reports. 3: 1158.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flood, J.M. 2014. Wiley Gaap 2015. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, October 27.

An edited book

Anderson, R.E., M.M. LaVail, and J.G. Hollyfield, ed. 2008. Recent Advances in Retinal Degeneration. . Vol. 613. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mikulincer, M., P.R. Shaver, and Z. Solomon. 2015. “An Attachment Perspective on Traumatic and Posttraumatic Reactions.” In Future Directions in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment, edited by M.P. Safir, H.S. Wallach, and A. “skip” Rizzo. , pp.79–96. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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. “How A Week Of Camping Resets The Body Clock.” 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. 2006. “No Child Left Behind Act: Education Actions Needed to Improve Local Implementation and State Evaluation of Supplemental Educational Services.” GAO-06-758. 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

Berkowitz, E.S. 2013. Some Novel Phenomena at High Density. Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Rothenberg, B. 2017. “Child Custody Fight May Sideline Azarenka.” New York Times, August 17.

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