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

Porto, J. V. (2008). Physics. Improving correlations despite particle loss. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5881), 1300–1301.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hom, E. F. Y., & Murray, A. W. (2014). Plant-fungal ecology. Niche engineering demonstrates a latent capacity for fungal-algal mutualism. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6192), 94–98.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, T.-W., Dai, C.-S., & Hung, K.-C. (2014). High energy density asymmetric supercapacitor based on NiOOH/Ni3S2/3D graphene and Fe3O4/graphene composite electrodes. Scientific Reports, 4, 7274.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lawton, R. O., Nair, U. S., Pielke Sr, R. A., & Welch, R. M. (2001). Climatic impact of tropical lowland deforestation on nearby montane cloud forests. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5542), 584–587.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mysak, J. (2011). Encyclopedia of Municipal Bonds. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zhang, L. (Ed.). (2016). Modeling the Injury Flow and Treatment after Major Earthquakes. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Jungmann, F., Hilgenberg, F., Porzelt, S., Fischbach, M., & Wegge, J. (2016). Team Work and Leadership in an Aging Workforce: Results of an Intervention Project. In B. Deml, P. Stock, R. Bruder, & C. M. Schlick (Eds.), Advances in Ergonomic Design of Systems, Products and Processes: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of GfA 2015 (pp. 57–70). 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

Andrew, E. (2013, November 13). Newly-Discovered Fossils Suggest That Big Cats Originated in Asia. 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. (2015). Drug-Impaired Driving: Additional Support Needed for Public Awareness Initiatives (GAO-15-293). 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

Rodgers, R. (2017). Phylogenomic Analysis of Fundulidae Using RNA-Sequencing Data [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Dorman, J. L. (2017, June 28). A C.E.O. Looks to Grow Boutique Hotels in Europe. New York Times, TR2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Porto, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Hom & Murray, 2014; Porto, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Hom & Murray, 2014)
Three authors: (Lin et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Lawton et al., 2001)

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