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

Barinaga M (2000) SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY: Look Before You Leap. Science 289:2028.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clift PD, and Blusztajn J (2005) Reorganization of the western Himalayan river system after five million years ago. Nature 438:1001–1003.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wessling M, Morcillo LG, and Abdu S (2014) Nanometer-thick lateral polyelectrolyte micropatterns induce macrosopic electro-osmotic chaotic fluid instabilities. Sci Rep 4:4294.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Hughes JF, Skaletsky H, Pyntikova T, Graves TA, van Daalen SKM, Minx PJ, Fulton RS, McGrath SD, Locke DP, Friedman C, Trask BJ, Mardis ER, Warren WC, Repping S, Rozen S, Wilson RK, and Page DC (2010) Chimpanzee and human Y chromosomes are remarkably divergent in structure and gene content. Nature 463:536–539.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Luo ACJ, and Guo Y (2013) Vibro-Impact Dynamics, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Wang F, Yan P, Suzuki K, and Shen D (eds) (2010) Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: First International Workshop, MLMI 2010, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2010, Beijing, China, September 20, 2010. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bayraktar E, Katundi D, Ayari F, Chevalier J-P, and Bonnet F (2011) Damage Analysis of the Ceramic Reinforced Steel Matrix Composites Sheets: Experimental and Numerical Study, in Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics (Proulx T ed) pp 21–29, Springer, New York, NY.

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

Davis J (2016) Calories Burnt By Teenagers Drops Suddenly During Puberty, And May Explain Increase In Obesity, 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) Human Services: Federal Approval and Funding Processes for States’ Information Systems, 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

Redcay JD (2014) Kindergarten students’ reading performance and perceptions of Ludus Reading: A mixed-method study, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Vecsey G (2010) A Continent’s Hopes Are Swatted Away.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barinaga, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Barinaga, 2000; Clift and Blusztajn, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Clift and Blusztajn, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Hughes et al., 2010)

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