How to format your references using the Drugs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Drugs. 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. Warrington B. Physics. Two atomic clocks ticking as one. Science. 2012;336:421–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Forster P, Renfrew C. Evolution. Mother tongue and Y chromosomes. Science. 2011;333:1390–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Powell KI, Chase JM, Knight TM. Invasive plants have scale-dependent effects on diversity by altering species-area relationships. Science. 2013;339:316–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Qi H, Egen JG, Huang AYC, Germain RN. Extrafollicular activation of lymph node B cells by antigen-bearing dendritic cells. Science. 2006;312:1672–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Knudsen S. Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Martínez-Martín E. Robust Motion Detection in Real-Life Scenarios. Pobil ÁP del, editor. London: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kamer S, Atasoy BM. Mechanisms of Resistance to Radiation. In: Haydaroglu A, Ozyigit G, editors. Principles and Practice of Modern Radiotherapy Techniques in Breast Cancer. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 49–57.

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 Drugs.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Measles Has Been Officially Wiped Out Across The Americas. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Business Systems Modernization: Internal Revenue Service’s Fiscal Year 2009 Expenditure Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Mar. Report No.: GAO-09-281.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ghale K. Modeling the Traffic Impacts During Evacuation of a Suburban University Campus: A Case Study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2015.

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. Kenigsberg B. This Time Tomorrow. New York Times. 2017 Aug 3;C9.

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	Drugs
Abbreviation	Drugs
ISSN (print)	0012-6667
ISSN (online)	1179-1950
Scope	Pharmacology (medical)