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

Carlson, D. (2011). A lesson in sharing. Nature, 469(7330), 293.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marotzke, J., & Forster, P. M. (2015). Forcing, feedback and internal variability in global temperature trends. Nature, 517(7536), 565–570.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eberhardt, M. V., Lee, C. Y., & Liu, R. H. (2000). Antioxidant activity of fresh apples. Nature, 405(6789), 903–904.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bonardi, V., Pesaresi, P., Becker, T., Schleiff, E., Wagner, R., Pfannschmidt, T., Jahns, P., & Leister, D. (2005). Photosystem II core phosphorylation and photosynthetic acclimation require two different protein kinases. Nature, 437(7062), 1179–1182.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaschke, M., Donnerhacke, K.-H., & Rill, M. S. (2014). Optical Devices in Ophthalmology and Optometry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Kyriacou, E., Christofides, S., & Pattichis, C. S. (Eds.). (2016). XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2016: MEDICON 2016, March 31st-April 2nd 2016, Paphos, Cyprus (Vol. 57). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Faruqi, A. A., Bryant, W. A., & Pinney, J. W. (2013). Analysis of Metabolic Evolution in Bacteria Using Whole-Genome Metabolic Models. In M. Deng, R. Jiang, F. Sun, & X. Zhang (Eds.), Research in Computational Molecular Biology: 17th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2013, Beijing, China, April 7-10, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 45–57). Springer.

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

Carpineti, C. (2017, March 2). This “Cosmic Jellyfish” is Weird and Wonderful. 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. (1996). Tax Systems Modernization: Progress in Achieving IRS’ Business Vision (T-GGD-96-123). 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

Nespoli, G. (2017). Impact of Supervisor Support on Employee Job Satisfaction Among Fundraising Staff Within Higher Education [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Cotter, H. (2017, October 20). A Chinatown Installation Aims to Provoke. New York Times, C19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carlson, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Carlson, 2011; Marotzke & Forster, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Marotzke & Forster, 2015)
Three authors: (Eberhardt et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Bonardi et al., 2005)

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