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

Pearson H. Biotech firms pin hopes on defence. Nature 2003 Apr 24;422(6934):790.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mourou G, Tajima T. Physics. More intense, shorter pulses. Science 2011 Jan 7;331(6013):41–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Okabe Y, Sano T, Nagata S. Regulation of the innate immune response by threonine-phosphatase of Eyes absent. Nature 2009 Jul 23;460(7254):520–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lee K-H, Lo H-L, Tang W-C, Hsiao HH-Y, Yang P-M. A gene expression signature-based approach reveals the mechanisms of action of the Chinese herbal medicine berberine. Sci Rep 2014 Sep 17;4:6394.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva LS, Simões R, Gervásio H. Design of Steel Structures. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2014.

An edited book

Lindquist LA, editor. New Directions in Geriatric Medicine: Concepts, Trends, and Evidence-Based Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Dempster AP. A Generalization of Bayesian Inference. In: Yager RR, Liu L, editors. Classic Works of the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Belief Functions Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 73–104.

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. Health Check: Does My Brain Really Freeze When I Eat Ice Cream? [Internet]. IFLScience IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/health-check-does-my-brain-really-freeze-when-i-eat-ice-cream/

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. New Denver Airport Followup. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Sep. Report No.: RCED-92-285R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hall ZB II. General Relativistic Non-Radial Oscillations in Compact Stars [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Hollander S. La Dolce Video. New York Times 2009 Feb 8;CY1.

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
Scope