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

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

[1]

Trainor P. Development. The bills of qucks and duails. Science 2003;299:523–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pomerantz RT, O’Donnell M. The replisome uses mRNA as a primer after colliding with RNA polymerase. Nature 2008;456:762–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Blair AC, Fisher ER, Rickey D. IBI* series winner. Discovering nanoscience. Science 2012;337:1056–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Sullivan CS, Grundhoff AT, Tevethia S, Pipas JM, Ganem D. SV40-encoded microRNAs regulate viral gene expression and reduce susceptibility to cytotoxic T cells. Nature 2005;435:682–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sarker SD, Nahar L. Chemistry for Pharmacy Students. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.; 2007.

An edited book

[1]

Liapis CD, Balzer K, Benedetti-Valentini F, Fernandes e Fernandes J, editors. Vascular Surgery. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jaramillo D, Furht B, Agarwal A. Mobile Virtualization Reference Architecture. In: Furht B, Agarwal A, editors. Virtualization Techniques for Mobile Systems, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 37–53.

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 Pharmacokinetics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Worldwide Cyberattack Stopped After Sole Researcher Accidentally Discovers Kill Switch. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worldwide-cyberattack-stopped-after-sole-researcher-accidentally-discovers-kill-switch/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Highway Technology: The Structure for Conducting Highway Pavement Research. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Schroeder SK. Tau-Directed Immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s Disease. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2017.

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

[1]

Markoff J. Robert Taylor, 85, Who Helped Create the Internet, Dies. New York Times 2017:A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics
Abbreviation	Drug Metab. Pharmacokinet.
ISSN (print)	1347-4367
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmaceutical Science Pharmacology