How to format your references using the Drug Resistance Updates citation style

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

Jha, A., 2000. Britain turns its attention to nanotech transfer. Nature 408, 620–621.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anastasiadou, E., Slack, F.J., 2014. Cancer. Malicious exosomes. Science 346, 1459–1460.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, J.L.C., Everitt, B.J., Thomas, K.L., 2004. Independent cellular processes for hippocampal memory consolidation and reconsolidation. Science 304, 839–843.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tweedy, L., Meier, B., Stephan, J., Heinrich, D., Endres, R.G., 2013. Distinct cell shapes determine accurate chemotaxis. Sci. Rep. 3, 2606.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Colloms, M., Darlington, P., 2005. High Performance Loudspeakers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, England.

An edited book

Jensen, K., Aalst, W.M.P. van der, Balbo, G., Koutny, M., Wolf, K. (Eds.), 2013. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency VII, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Lévy, F., Nazarenko, A., 2013. Formalization of Natural Language Regulations through SBVR Structured English, in: Morgenstern, L., Stefaneas, P., Lévy, F., Wyner, A., Paschke, A. (Eds.), Theory, Practice, and Applications of Rules on the Web: 7th International Symposium, RuleML 2013, Seattle, WA, USA, July 11-13, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 19–33.

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 Resistance Updates.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2016. How Fish And Clean Water Can Protect Coral Reefs From Warming Oceans [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-fish-and-clean-water-can-protect-coral-reefs-from-warming-oceans/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2014. Market Research: Better Documentation Needed to Inform Future Procurements at Selected Agencies (No. GAO-15-8). 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

Contartesi, R.A., 2010. School climate: A correlational analysis of superintendent leadership communication and employee performance (Doctoral dissertation). 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

Berger, J., 2014. Officer Kills Man After Stabbing in Synagogue. New York Times A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jha, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Anastasiadou and Slack, 2014; Jha, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Anastasiadou and Slack, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Tweedy et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Drug Resistance Updates
Abbreviation	Drug Resist. Updat.
ISSN (print)	1368-7646
Scope	Cancer Research Infectious Diseases Oncology Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology