How to format your references using the Drug Safety - Case Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Drug Safety - Case Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Li W. Small but effective moves towards a greener China. Nature. 2009;460:683–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lucht M, Rosskopf D. Comment on “Genetically determined differences in learning from errors.” Science. 2008;321:200; author reply 200.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Smith TM, Karl TR, Reynolds RW. Climate modeling. How accurate are climate simulations? Science. 2002;296:483–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Cicchillo RM, Zhang H, Blodgett JAV, Whitteck JT, Li G, Nair SK, et al. An unusual carbon-carbon bond cleavage reaction during phosphinothricin biosynthesis. Nature. 2009;459:871–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Goshtasby AA. Theory and Applications of Image Registration. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. Gribben C, Spurlock S, editors. Puritans and Catholics in the Trans-Atlantic World 1600–1800. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kotowski J, Ochla M. Cloud IT as a Base for Virtual Internship. In: Klempous R, Nikodem J, editors. Innovative Technologies in Management and Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 57–71.

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 Safety - Case Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Improved Anti-HIV Antibodies Created Through Genetic Engineering [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/improved-anti-hiv-antibodies-created-through-genetic-engineering/

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. Should the Bureau of Indian Affairs Continue To Provide Educational Services to Indian Children? Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980 Apr. Report No.: CED-80-72.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tegtmeier T. Science-related attitudes of urban middle school students [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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. Oestreich JR. Is It Really Opera? That’s Beside the Point. New York Times. 2017 May 5;C6.

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 Safety - Case Reports
Abbreviation	Drug Saf. Case Rep.
ISSN (print)	2199-1162
ISSN (online)	2198-977X
Scope	Pharmacology (medical)