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]

D. Gilbert. Buried by bad decisions. Nature, 2011, 474, 275–277.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Visscher, T. Taylor. Pressure ulcers in the hospitalized neonate: rates and risk factors. Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, 7429.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. S. Kayser, Z. Yue, A. Sehgal. A critical period of sleep for development of courtship circuitry and behavior in Drosophila. Science, 2014, 344, 269–274.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Y. Lin, S.-Z. Zhang, E. Block, L. C. Katz. Encoding social signals in the mouse main olfactory bulb. Nature, 2005, 434, 470–477.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. J.G. Upton. Categorical Data Analysis by Example, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

M. Liu. Nonlinear Analysis and Prediction of Time Series in Multiphase Reactors, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. J. J. Kok, K. Poston, G. Moore. Bombardier Aerospace FSW Demonstrator, in ICAF 2011 Structural Integrity: Influence of Efficiency and Green Imperatives: Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue, Montreal, Canada, 1-3 June 2011, (Ed: J. Komorowski), Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011, pp. 73–81.

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]

K. Hamilton. “What Happens When You Give A Squirrel A GoPro?,” Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/squirrel-grabs-gopro-and-climbs-tree/, 2014.

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. NATO: Progress Toward More Mobile and Deployable Forces, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

I. Swift. The Perceived Effect of Hidden Costs on the Operational Management of Information Technology Outsourcing: A Qualitative Study, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2011.

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]

B. Brantley. The Devil Went Down to Chelsea. New York Times, 2016, C5.

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