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]

Faigman DL. Science and the law. Is science different for lawyers? Science 2002;297:339–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Mendelsohn ME, Karas RH. Molecular and cellular basis of cardiovascular gender differences. Science 2005;308:1583–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Alves JF, Lada CJ, Lada EA. Internal structure of a cold dark molecular cloud inferred from the extinction of background starlight. Nature 2001;409:159–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Berg IA, Kockelkorn D, Buckel W, Fuchs G. A 3-hydroxypropionate/4-hydroxybutyrate autotrophic carbon dioxide assimilation pathway in Archaea. Science 2007;318:1782–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gable J, Herrmann T. Counselling Skills for Dietitians. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Dietz V, Nef T, Rymer WZ, editors. Neurorehabilitation Technology. London: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lea J, Frost KS. Public Archaeology in Canada. In: Okamura K, Matsuda A, editors. New Perspectives in Global Public Archaeology, New York, NY: Springer; 2011, p. 57–76.

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]

Hamilton K. Claim Of Link Between Intelligence And Cannabis Use In Adolescence Provides Fresh Headache For Researcher. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/claim-of-link-between-intelligence-and-cannabis-use-in-adolescence-provides-fresh-headache-for-researcher/ (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. Transportation and Telecommunications Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Johnson C. Directed blogging with community college ESL students: Its effects on awareness of language acquisition processes. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2012.

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]

Wagner J. Now It’s the Astros in Charge. New York Times 2017:D1.

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