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

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

[1]

Strong M. Scientists and societies. Community outreach. Nature 2005;434:418.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Webby RJ, Webster RG. Are we ready for pandemic influenza? Science 2003;302:1519–22.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Navarro-González R, McKay CP, Mvondo DN. A possible nitrogen crisis for Archaean life due to reduced nitrogen fixation by lightning. Nature 2001;412:61–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kishida H, Matsuzaki H, Okamoto H, Manabe T, Yamashita M, Taguchi Y, et al. Gigantic optical nonlinearity in one-dimensional Mott-Hubbard insulators. Nature 2000;405:929–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gaynor GH. Decisions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Grinevetsky SR. The Black Sea Encyclopedia. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jin X, Jiang J, Min G. Multi-agent Based Personal File Management Using Case Based Reasoning. In: Corchado E, Wu X, Oja E, Herrero Á, Baruque B, editors. Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems: 4th International Conference, HAIS 2009, Salamanca, Spain, June 10-12, 2009. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 26–33.

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 Pharmacokinetics.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Scientists Reprogram Skin Cells To Hunt Down And Shrink Brain Tumors. IFLScience 2017.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Intellectual Property: State Immunity in Infringement Actions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Liu H. Three Papers on the Sociology of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2017.

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

[1]

Woolfe Z. The Newest Russia House. New York Times 2013:C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics
Abbreviation	Drug Metab. Pharmacokinet.
ISSN (print)	1347-4367
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmaceutical Science Pharmacology