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. Crutzen PJ. A late change to the programme. Nature. 2004;429:349.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hwang KC, Sagadevan A. One-pot room-temperature conversion of cyclohexane to adipic acid by ozone and UV light. Science. 2014;346:1495–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Janasek D, Franzke J, Manz A. Scaling and the design of miniaturized chemical-analysis systems. Nature. 2006;442:374–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kristiansen M, Graversen JH, Jacobsen C, Sonne O, Hoffman HJ, Law SK, et al. Identification of the haemoglobin scavenger receptor. Nature. 2001;409:198–201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Evans AW. Economics, Real Estate and the Supply of Land. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

1. Meyer-Ortmanns H, Thurner S, editors. Principles of Evolution: From the Planck Epoch to Complex Multicellular Life. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Awrejcewicz J. Thermoelastic Contact of Two Moving Layers with Friction and Wear. In: Awrejcewicz J, editor. Nonsmooth Dynamics of Contacting Thermoelastic Bodies. New York, NY: Springer; 2009. p. 1–15.

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. Angelina Jolie’s Surgery Got You Worried? Here’s What You Should Know About Ovarian Cancer Risk [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/angelina-jolie-s-surgery-got-you-worried-here-s-what-you-should-know-about/

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. FAA Appropriation Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Mar. Report No.: T-RCED-88-32.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Chung D. Health Information Infrastructure: Flows and Frictions [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 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. Stewart JB. Iconic Retailer in Slow Decline. New York Times. 2017 Mar 30;B1.

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)

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