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

Reinitz J. Turing centenary: Pattern formation. Nature 2012 Feb 22;482(7386):464.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson EJ, Goldstein D. Medicine. Do defaults save lives? Science 2003 Nov 21;302(5649):1338–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou T, Gao Y, Wang ZD. Topological quantum phase transitions and edge states in spin-orbital coupled Fermi gases. Sci Rep 2014 Jun 11;4:5218.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Watson AJ, Bakker DC, Ridgwell AJ, Boyd PW, Law CS. Effect of iron supply on Southern Ocean CO2 uptake and implications for glacial atmospheric CO2. Nature 2000 Oct 12;407(6805):730–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Piegorsch WW, Bailer AJ. Analyzing Environmental Data. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Beck M. Computing the Continuous Discretely: Integer-Point Enumeration in Polyhedra. Robins S, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Demaine ED, Demaine ML, Hawksley A, et al. Making Polygons by Simple Folds and One Straight Cut. In: Akiyama J, Bo J, Kano M, Tan X, editors. Computational Geometry, Graphs and Applications: 9th International Conference, CGGA 2010, Dalian, China, November 3-6, 2010, Revised Selected Papers Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 27–43.

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

Andrews R. Massive Underwater Avalanche Recorded By Scientists’ “Smart Boulders” [Internet]. IFLScience IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/massive-underwater-avalanche-recorded-scientists-smart-boulders/

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. Highway Congestion: Intelligent Transportation Systems’ Promise for Managing Congestion Falls Short, and DOT Could Better Facilitate Their Strategic Use. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Sep. Report No.: GAO-05-943.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Petrovic V. The K(n)-local E n-Adams Spectral Sequence and a Cohomological Approximation of its E2-term [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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

Kelly K. A Top Goldman Veteran Gets Trump’s Attention on Jobs, Taxes and More. New York Times 2017 Feb 11;A13.

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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