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

Schiermeier Q. Austrian physics meeting passes without boycott. Nature 2000 Jul 6;406(6791):7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jaeger J-J, Marivaux L. Paleontology. Shaking the earliest branches of anthropoid primate evolution. Science 2005 Oct 14;310(5746):244–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Toyoshima C, Nomura H, Tsuda T. Lumenal gating mechanism revealed in calcium pump crystal structures with phosphate analogues. Nature 2004 Nov 18;432(7015):361–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bayer M, Nawy T, Giglione C, Galli M, Meinnel T, Lukowitz W. Paternal control of embryonic patterning in Arabidopsis thaliana. Science 2009 Mar 13;323(5920):1485–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wills B. Purposely Profitable. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Braza M, Bottaro A, Thompson M, editors. Advances in Fluid-Structure Interaction: Updated contributions reflecting new findings presented at the ERCOFTAC Symposium on Unsteady Separation in Fluid-Structure Interaction, 17-21 June 2013, St John Resort, Mykonos, Greece. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Peikert C. Some Recent Progress in Lattice-Based Cryptography. In: Reingold O, editor. Theory of Cryptography: 6th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 15-17, 2009 Proceedings Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 72–72.

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

Andrews R. Archeologists Will Use Drones and Cosmic Rays To Peer Deep Inside The Pyramids [Internet]. IFLScience IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/archaeologists-will-use-drones-and-cosmic-rays-peek-inside-egyptian-pyramids/

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. Review of Two Proposed Automatic Data Processing Procurements by the Social Security Administration. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985 Apr. Report No.: IMTEC-85-7.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ishutov S. Tectonic characterization of the THUMS-Huntington Beach fault, offshore southern California [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Billard M. Out of Character, but in His Element. New York Times 2013 Oct 17;E7.

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

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