How to format your references using the Drug Resistance Updates citation style

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

Smaglik, P., 2003. Language lessons: Heidelberg. Nature 423, 364–365.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hemmer, P., Wrachtrup, J., 2009. Physics. Where is my quantum computer? Science 324, 473–474.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chalasani, R., Gupta, A., Vasudevan, S., 2013. Engineering new layered solids from exfoliated inorganics: a periodically alternating hydrotalcite-montmorillonite layered hybrid. Sci. Rep. 3, 3498.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Castellone, M.D., Teramoto, H., Williams, B.O., Druey, K.M., Gutkind, J.S., 2005. Prostaglandin E2 promotes colon cancer cell growth through a Gs-axin-beta-catenin signaling axis. Science 310, 1504–1510.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bagdonavičius, V., Julius, K., Nikulin, M.S., 2011. Non-parametric Tests for Complete Data. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Aletti, G., Micheletti, A., Morale, D., Burger, M. (Eds.), 2007. Math Everywhere: Deterministic and Stochastic Modelling in Biomedicine, Economics and Industry. Dedicated to the 60th Birthday of Vincenzo Capasso. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Fumarola, F., Pio, G., Felle, A.E., Malerba, D., Ceci, M., 2014. EDB: Knowledge Technologies for Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy, in: Catarci, T., Ferro, N., Poggi, A. (Eds.), Bridging Between Cultural Heritage Institutions: 9th Italian Research Conference, IRCDL 2013, Rome, Italy, January 31–February 1, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 29–40.

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 Resistance Updates.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. New Species Of Pterosaur Is A Near-Perfect Intermediate Form Between First And Final Species [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-pterosaur-nearperfect-intermediate-form-between-first-final-species/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1980. Highway Safety Research and Development--Better Management Can Make It More Useful (No. CED-80-87). 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

Delmont, L.O., 2012. Wings pumping, wings stilled (Doctoral dissertation). 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

Hodgman, J., 2017. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hemmer and Wrachtrup, 2009; Smaglik, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Hemmer and Wrachtrup, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Castellone et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Drug Resistance Updates
Abbreviation	Drug Resist. Updat.
ISSN (print)	1368-7646
Scope	Cancer Research Infectious Diseases Oncology Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology