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

Urban KW. Studying atomic structures by aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy. Science 2008 Jul 25;321(5888):506–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roy S, Asenov A. Applied physics. Where do the dopants go? Science 2005 Jul 15;309(5733):388–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lam FH, Steger DJ, O’Shea EK. Chromatin decouples promoter threshold from dynamic range. Nature 2008 May 8;453(7192):246–50.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Christensen J, Romero-García V, Picó R, et al. Extraordinary absorption of sound in porous lamella-crystals. Sci Rep 2014 Apr 14;4:4674.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rees H. Supply Chain Management in the Drug Industry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Dupuy AJ, Largaespada DA, editors. Insertional Mutagenesis Strategies in Cancer Genetics. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Schwentick T. The Dynamic Complexity of the Reachability Problem on Graphs. In: Abdulla PA, Potapov I, editors. Reachability Problems: 7th International Workshop, RP 2013, Uppsala, Sweden, September 24-26, 2013 Proceedings Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 45–45.

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. Fatal Whale Attack Reveals The ‘Dark Side’ Of Dolphins. IFLScience IFLScience; 2015.

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. Data Center Consolidation: Strengthened Oversight Needed to Achieve Cost Savings Goal. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Apr. Report No.: GAO-13-378.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garcia-Benitez C. Support program to facilitate achievement for emancipated foster youth to succeed in college [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Crow K. Judge Won’t Lock the Stable Until Horses Have a Home. New York Times 2002 Sep 29;146.

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