How to format your references using the Drug Metabolism and Disposition citation style

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

Scharfman HE (2015) Neuroscience. Metabolic control of epilepsy. Science 347:1312–1313.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kelley KA, and Cottrell E (2009) Water and the oxidation state of subduction zone magmas. Science 325:605–607.

A journal article with 3 authors

Antonovics J, Hood ME, and Baker CH (2006) Molecular virology: was the 1918 flu avian in origin? Nature 440:E9; discussion E9-10.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Heldwein EE, Lou H, Bender FC, Cohen GH, Eisenberg RJ, and Harrison SC (2006) Crystal structure of glycoprotein B from herpes simplex virus 1. Science 313:217–220.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saadoun AP (2012) Esthetic Soft Tissue Management of Teeth and Implants, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Fontani M (2016) Chemistry and Chemists in Florence: From the Last of the Medici Family to the European Magnetic Resonance Center (Orna MV, and Costa M eds), Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Mazurek K (2015) Transformation of the Structure of the River Catchment Landscape Located in the Area of Intensive Coal Exploitation, in Landscape Analysis and Planning: Geographical Perspectives (Luc M, Somorowska U, and Szmańda JB eds) pp 81–90, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Metabolism and Disposition.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Misuse Of Prescription Opioids Has More Than Doubled In the US In the Past Decade, 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 (2008) Aviation Security: Transportation Security Administration Has Strengthened Planning to Guide Investments in Key Aviation Security Programs, but More Work Remains, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Graham SM (2017) Conditions that Prompt the Migrant Worker Population to Access Pre-Hospital Emergency Care in Place of Health Centers in Qatar, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Nagourney A (2014) ‘Everyone Has a Game Plan Until You Punch them in the Mouth.’

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Scharfman, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kelley and Cottrell, 2009; Scharfman, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Kelley and Cottrell, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Heldwein et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Drug Metabolism and Disposition
Abbreviation	Drug Metab. Dispos.
ISSN (print)	0090-9556
ISSN (online)	1521-009X
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science Pharmacology