How to format your references using the Drugs of the Future citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Drugs of the Future. 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

Crutcher RM. Astronomy. Testing star formation theory. Science 2006 Aug 11;313(5788):771–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Belden WJ, Barlowe C. Role of Erv29p in collecting soluble secretory proteins into ER-derived transport vesicles. Science 2001 Nov 16;294(5546):1528–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stott L, Timmermann A, Thunell R. Southern Hemisphere and deep-sea warming led deglacial atmospheric CO2 rise and tropical warming. Science 2007 Oct 19;318(5849):435–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Morin S, Savarino J, Frey MM, et al. Tracing the origin and fate of NOx in the Arctic atmosphere using stable isotopes in nitrate. Science 2008 Oct 31;322(5902):730–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pearce R, Barnes S. Raising Venture Capital. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Danezis G, Dietrich S, Sako K, editors. Financial Cryptography and Data Security: FC 2011 Workshops, RLCPS and WECSR 2011, Rodney Bay, St. Lucia, February 28 - March 4, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Guillot M, Canudas-Romo V. Revisiting Life Expectancy Rankings in Countries that Have Experienced Fast Mortality Decline. In: Schoen R, editor. Dynamic Demographic Analysis Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 51–67.

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 of the Future.

Blog post

Evans K. Wildlife Summit Rejects Attempt To Resume Ivory Trade [Internet]. IFLScience IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wildlife-summit-rejects-attempt-to-resume-ivory-trade/

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

Government Accountability Office. Youth Training. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Sep. Report No.: PEMD-94-32R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sadr EI. To whisper in the king’s ear: Economists in Pahlavi and Islamic Iran [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2013.

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

Cooper M. On Gun Ownership, and Attitudes, in America. New York Times 2017 Jun 22;A9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 of the Future
Abbreviation	Drugs Future
ISSN (print)	0377-8282
ISSN (online)	2013-0368
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology