How to format your references using the International Journal of Drug Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Drug Policy. 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	Download the output style file
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, H. (2015). The world must accept that the HPV vaccine is safe. Nature, 528(7580), 9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xiong, Y., & Steitz, T. A. (2004). Mechanism of transfer RNA maturation by CCA-adding enzyme without using an oligonucleotide template. Nature, 430(7000), 640–645.

A journal article with 3 authors

Frey, S., Richter, R. P., & Görlich, D. (2006). FG-rich repeats of nuclear pore proteins form a three-dimensional meshwork with hydrogel-like properties. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5800), 815–817.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Stenseth, N. C., Mysterud, A., Ottersen, G., Hurrell, J. W., Chan, K.-S., & Lima, M. (2002). Ecological effects of climate fluctuations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5585), 1292–1296.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dowd, K. (2005). Measuring Market Risk. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Ermentrout, G. B. (2010). Mathematical Foundations of Neuroscience (D. H. Terman, Ed.; Vol. 35). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rodríguez-Sánchez, A. J., & Piater, J. (2014). Models of the Visual Cortex for Object Representation: Learning and Wired Approaches. In L. Grandinetti, T. Lippert, & N. Petkov (Eds.), Brain-Inspired Computing: International Workshop, BrainComp 2013, Cetraro, Italy, July 8-11, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 51–62). Springer International Publishing.

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 International Journal of Drug Policy.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, August 18). Nearly 1 Billion People Worldwide Still Smoke Everyday. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2003). Joint Strike Fighter Acquisition: Managing Competing Pressures Is Critical to Achieving Program Goals (GAO-03-1012T). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Adams, C. A. (2013). Impact of water management and agronomic practices on the performance of insecticide seed treatments against rice water weevil, Lissorhoptrus oryzophilus Kuschel, in Mississippi rice [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2016, December 22). Daddy’s Dreams, Recast by His Girls. New York Times, C13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Larson, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Larson, 2015; Xiong & Steitz, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Xiong & Steitz, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Stenseth et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Drug Policy
Abbreviation	Int. J. Drug Policy
ISSN (print)	0955-3959
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Health Policy