How to format your references using the Drug Testing and Analysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Drug Testing and Analysis. 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]

K. Bourzac. Water: The flow of technology. Nature, 2013, 501, S4-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Vukusic, J. R. Sambles. Photonic structures in biology. Nature, 2003, 424, 852–855.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. P. Hibbins, B. R. Evans, J. R. Sambles. Experimental verification of designer surface plasmons. Science, 2005, 308, 670–672.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Lin, Y. Wang, Y. Gorby, K. Nealson, Y. Pan. Integrating niche-based process and spatial process in biogeography of magnetotactic bacteria. Sci. Rep., 2013, 3, 1643.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Process Safety in Batch Reaction Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 1999.

An edited book

[1]

P. Gopalakrishnan. Direct Transistor-Level Layout for Digital Blocks, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Belyaev, E. Anoshkina. Detection of Surface Creases in Range Data, in Mathematics of Surfaces XI: 11th IMA International Conference, Loughborough, UK, September 5-7, 2005. Proceedings, (Eds: R. Martin, H. Bez, M. Sabin), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005, pp. 50–61.

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 Testing and Analysis.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub. “Worms Go Through A Rebellious Teenage Phase Too,” Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/worms-go-through-rebellious-teenage-phase-too/, 2017.

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. Student Athletes: Most Schools Meet Proposed Academic Performance Reporting Requirements, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Y.-C. Lu. From Confrontation to Accommodation: China’s Policy toward the U.S. in the Post-Cold War Era, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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]

M. Pilon. Amid Storm Recovery, Marathon Expo Opens Doors to Runners. New York Times, 2012, B10.

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 Testing and Analysis
Abbreviation	Drug Test. Anal.
ISSN (print)	1942-7603
ISSN (online)	1942-7611
Scope	Analytical Chemistry Spectroscopy Environmental Chemistry Pharmaceutical Science