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

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

Larson EJ. Antarctica: Turning the world upside down. Nature 2011 Nov 30;480(7375):29–31.

A journal article with 2 authors

Domon B, Aebersold R. Mass spectrometry and protein analysis. Science 2006 Apr 14;312(5771):212–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Willis GL, Moore C, Armstrong SM. Parkinson’s disease, lights and melanocytes: looking beyond the retina. Sci Rep 2014 Jan 29;4:3921.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lavallée Y, Meredith PG, Dingwell DB, et al. Seismogenic lavas and explosive eruption forecasting. Nature 2008 May 22;453(7194):507–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adamczyk B. Foundations of Electromagnetic Compatibility. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Bartolini N, Nikoletseas S, Sinha P, Cardellini V, Mahanti A, editors. Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Networks: 6th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QShine 2009 and 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet Delivery and Applications, AAA-IDEA 2009, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, November 23-25, 2009 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Delaët S, Ducourthial B, Tixeuil S. Self-stabilization with r-Operators Revisited. In: Tixeuil S, Herman T, editors. Self-Stabilizing Systems: 7th International Symposium, SSS 2005, Barcelona, Spain, October 26-27, 2005 Proceedings Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. p. 68–80.

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 Today.

Blog post

Hamilton K. FDA Warns Common Food Ingredient Can Be Fatal To Dogs [Internet]. IFLScience IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fda-warns-artificial-sweetener-can-be-fatal-dogs/

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. Education and Care: Head Start Key Among Array of Early Childhood Programs, but National Research on Effectiveness Not Completed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Jul. Report No.: GAO-03-840T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Delaney DC. Undergraduate social work students’ perceptions regarding hospice and end-of-life care [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Pennington B, Belson K. Panthers’ Newton Stands Out in a Quieter Week of Player Protests. New York Times 2017 Oct 2;D7.

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 Today
ISSN (print)	1699-3993
ISSN (online)	1699-4019
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