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

Burrows AS. Highlights in the study of exoplanet atmospheres. Nature 2014 Sep 18;513(7518):345–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu X, Ruvkun G. Cancer. Germ cell genes and cancer. Science 2010 Dec 24;330(6012):1761–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoshimura K, Onda Y, Fukushima T. Sediment particle size and initial radiocesium accumulation in ponds following the Fukushima DNPP accident. Sci Rep 2014 Mar 31;4:4514.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mechelli A, Crinion JT, Noppeney U, et al. Neurolinguistics: structural plasticity in the bilingual brain. Nature 2004 Oct 14;431(7010):757.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Performing Effective Pre-startup Safety Reviews. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

Zhao M, Sha J, editors. Communications and Information Processing: International Conference, ICCIP 2012 Aveiro, Portugal, March 7-11, 2012 Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhou J, Lu Y, Lundqvist K. A TASM-Based Requirements Validation Approach for Safety-Critical Embedded Systems. In: George L, Vardanega T, editors. Reliable Software Technologies – Ada-Europe 2014: 19th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Paris, France, June 23-27, 2014 Proceedings Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 43–57.

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 of the Future.

Blog post

Hale T. Did Ancient Humans Help Create The Sahara Desert? [Internet]. IFLScience IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/did-ancient-humans-help-create-the-sahara-desert/

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. Telecommunications: Enhanced Data Collection Could Help FCC Better Monitor Competition in the Wireless Industry. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010 Jul. Report No.: GAO-10-779.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Joppy DA. Principal Socialization in One Virginia School District: A Phenomenological Investigation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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

Wilson M. Diary Hints at Slaves’ Remains on a Lot in Brooklyn. New York Times 2017 Aug 4;A15.

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