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

Landau S. Control use of data to protect privacy. Science 2015 Jan 30;347(6221):504–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alici KB, Gallardo IF. Detecting secondary structure and surface orientation of helical peptide monolayers from resonant hybridization signals. Sci Rep 2013 Oct 16;3:2956.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kennedy HJ, Crawford AC, Fettiplace R. Force generation by mammalian hair bundles supports a role in cochlear amplification. Nature 2005 Feb 24;433(7028):880–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Izawa D, Goto M, Yamashita A, Yamano H, Yamamoto M. Fission yeast Mes1p ensures the onset of meiosis II by blocking degradation of cyclin Cdc13p. Nature 2005 Mar 24;434(7032):529–33.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nomura S. Micromechanics with Mathematica. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Desai B, Allen B, editors. Nailing the Written Emergency Medicine Board Examination. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Waseda Y, Matsubara E, Shinoda K. Diffraction from Polycrystalline Samples and Determination of Crystal Structure. In: Matsubara E, Shinoda K, editors. X-Ray Diffraction Crystallography: Introduction, Examples and Solved Problems Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 107–67.

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

Taub B. This Year’s Ig Nobel Prize Winners Are As Bonkers As Ever [Internet]. IFLScience IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/this-years-ig-nobel-prize-winners-bonkers-ever/

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. Electronic Government: Opportunities and Challenges Facing the FirstGov Web Gateway. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Oct. Report No.: GAO-01-87T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Banuelos J. Deficit irrigation of bermudagrass and seashore paspalum for golf course turf [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 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

Stewart JB. Momentum for Tax Reform, Thanks to Trump’s Tactics. New York Times 2016 Nov 3;B1.

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

Research and Writing Guides