How to format your references using the Drug Development Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Drug Development Research. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Buesseler, K.O. 2012. “Ecology. Fishing for Answers off Fukushima.” Science (New York, N.Y.). 338(6106): 480–482.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chemla, D.S., and J. Shah. 2001. “Many-Body and Correlation Effects in Semiconductors.” Nature. 411(6837): 549–557.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baskin, A., H.R. Sadeghpour, and P. Král. 2014. “Correlated Diskoid-like Electronic States.” Scientific reports. 4: 5913.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Cohen, J.C., R.S. Kiss, A. Pertsemlidis, Y.L. Marcel, R. McPherson, and H.H. Hobbs. 2004. “Multiple Rare Alleles Contribute to Low Plasma Levels of HDL Cholesterol.” Science (New York, N.Y.). 305(5685): 869–872.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Samonas, M. 2015. Financial Forecasting, Analysis, and Modelling. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, February 9.

An edited book

Bobe, R., Z. Alemseged, and A.K. Behrensmeyer, ed. 2007. Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Morales Trujillo, M., H. Oktaba, F.J. Pino, and M.J. Orozco. 2011. “Applying Agile and Lean Practices in a Software Development Project into a CMMI Organization.” In Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 12th International Conference, PROFES 2011, Torre Canne, Italy, June 20-22, 2011. Proceedings, edited by D. Caivano, M. Oivo, M.T. Baldassarre, and G. Visaggio. , pp.17–29. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Drug Development Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. “Take An Interactive Tour Of The International Space Station.” 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. 2005. “National Assessment of Educational Progress Exclusion Rates for Students with Disabilities.” GAO-06-194R. Washington, DC: 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

Jackson, M.E. 2010. Where Are the Parents: The Parent’s Perspective of Parental Involvement in Education. Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Gustines, G.G. 2016. “Long-Lost Flag, Mystery of 9/11, Heads to Museum in Manhattan.” New York Times, September 7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Drug Development Research
Abbreviation	Drug Dev. Res.
ISSN (print)	0272-4391
ISSN (online)	1098-2299
Scope	Drug Discovery