How to format your references using the Drug Safety - Case Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Drug Safety - Case Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Gewin V. Poor nations seek new biodiversity deal. Nature. 2002;415:949.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kaiser D, Moreno J. Dual-use research: Self-censorship is not enough. Nature. 2012;492:345–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mertens K, Putkaradze V, Vorobieff P. Braiding patterns on an inclined plane. Nature. 2004;430:165.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zagotta WN, Olivier NB, Black KD, Young EC, Olson R, Gouaux E. Structural basis for modulation and agonist specificity of HCN pacemaker channels. Nature. 2003;425:200–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Mauthe A, Thomas P. Professional Content Management Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Kerzner DS. International Tax Evasion in the Global Information Age. Chodikoff DW, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Strøm G. The Reader Creates a Personal Meaning: A Comparative Study of Scenarios and Human-centred Stories. In: McEwan T, Gulliksen J, Benyon D, editors. People and Computers XIX — The Bigger Picture: Proceedings of HCI 2005. London: Springer; 2006. p. 53–68.

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 Safety - Case Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. How The Brain Changes When We Learn To Read [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-the-brain-changes-when-we-learn-to-read/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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. Federal Student Loans: Flexible Agreements with Guaranty Agencies Warrant Careful Evaluation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Jan. Report No.: GAO-02-254.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Unison-Pace WJ. Investigating generational differences of perceived uncivilized behaviors between students and faculty in nursing education [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2015.

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. O’connor G. All at Sea. New York Times. 2017 Jun 16;BR15.

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 Safety - Case Reports
Abbreviation	Drug Saf. Case Rep.
ISSN (print)	2199-1162
ISSN (online)	2198-977X
Scope	Pharmacology (medical)