How to format your references using the Drug Metabolism and Disposition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Drug Metabolism and Disposition. 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

Samuelson P (2001) Anticircumvention rules: threat to science. Science 293:2028–2031.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oh M, and Mirkin CA (2005) Chemically tailorable colloidal particles from infinite coordination polymers. Nature 438:651–654.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reece SE, Drew DR, and Gardner A (2008) Sex ratio adjustment and kin discrimination in malaria parasites. Nature 453:609–614.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Khriachtchev L, Pettersson M, Runeberg N, Lundell J, and Rasanen M (2000) A stable argon compound. Nature 406:874–876.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hirsch HL (2005) Essential Communication Strategies for Scientists, Engineers, and Technology Professionals, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kreowski H-J, Scholz-Reiter B, and Thoben K-D (eds) (2011) Dynamics in Logistics: Second International Conference, LDIC 2009, Bremen, Germany, August 2009, Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheng W, Wang C, Xiao B, Qian W, and Zhou A (2016) On Statistical Characteristics of Real-Life Knowledge Graphs, in Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware: 6th Workshop, BPOE 2015, Kohala, HI, USA, August 31 - September 4, 2015. Revised Selected Papers (Zhan J, Han R, and Zicari RV eds) pp 37–49, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Metabolism and Disposition.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) A Rare European Bison Has Been Found Decapitated On A Reserve, 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) Waste From School Lunches, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bravo M (2015) The development of a viable business plan: Analytics of 30 day readmission rates for hospitals and ancillary services, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Burghardt LF (2006) The Legacies They Left.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Samuelson, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Samuelson, 2001; Oh and Mirkin, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Oh and Mirkin, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Khriachtchev et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Drug Metabolism and Disposition
Abbreviation	Drug Metab. Dispos.
ISSN (print)	0090-9556
ISSN (online)	1521-009X
Scope	Pharmaceutical Science Pharmacology