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

Bruno, J. F. (2014). Ecology. How do coral reefs recover? Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6199), 879–880.

A journal article with 2 authors

Greenleaf, W. J., & Block, S. M. (2006). Single-molecule, motion-based DNA sequencing using RNA polymerase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5788), 801.

A journal article with 3 authors

Seidenberg, M. S., MacDonald, M. C., & Saffran, J. R. (2002). Neuroscience. Does grammar start where statistics stop? Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5593), 553–554.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ma, W., Qin, L.-X., Liu, F.-T., Gu, Z., Wang, J., Pan, Z. G., James, T. D., & Long, Y.-T. (2013). Ubiquinone-quantum dot bioconjugates for in vitro and intracellular complex I sensing. Scientific Reports, 3, 1537.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hines, M. (2015). Marketing implant dentistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Block, P., Kasnitz, D., Nishida, A., & Pollard, N. (Eds.). (2016). Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability (1st ed. 2016). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Weinberger, M. M. (2012). The Habit Cough Syndrome and Its Variations. In R. D. Anbar (Ed.), Functional Respiratory Disorders: When Respiratory Symptoms Do Not Respond to Pulmonary Treatment (pp. 89–103). Humana Press.

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. (2015, November 6). Seeds Of Doubt: Why Consumers Weigh Up GM Produce – And Turn It Down. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/seeds-doubt-why-consumers-weigh-gm-produce-and-turn-it-down/

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. (1997). Federal Ships: Policy Changes in the Disposal of Surplus Ships (NSIAD-98-17R). 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

Sharma, S. P. (2017). U.S. Government Program Managers’ Competencies to Manage Satellite Acquisition Programs [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral 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

Hamblin, J. (2017, January 27). Sick of Success. New York Times, SR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bruno, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bruno, 2014; Greenleaf & Block, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Greenleaf & Block, 2006)
Three authors: (Seidenberg et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Ma et al., 2013)

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

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