How to format your references using the Drug Safety citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Drug Safety. 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. Moore P. PCR: replicating success. Nature. 2005;435:235–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Harper GR Jr, Pfennig DW. Selection overrides gene flow to break down maladaptive mimicry. Nature. 2008;451:1103–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Schoener TW, Losos JB, Spiller DA. Island biogeography of populations: an introduced species transforms survival patterns. Science. 2005;310:1807–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Boehmerle W, Huehnchen P, Peruzzaro S, Balkaya M, Endres M. Electrophysiological, behavioral and histological characterization of paclitaxel, cisplatin, vincristine and bortezomib-induced neuropathy in C57Bl/6 mice. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6370.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sarker SD, Nahar L. Chemistry for Pharmacy Students. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.; 2007.

An edited book

1. Mesquita M, Restivo S, D’Ambrosio U, editors. Asphalt Children and City Streets: A Life, a City and a Case Study of History, Culture, and Ethnomathematics in São Paulo. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Meijer HJM, Essers M, Struikmans H, Venselaar JLM, Poortmans P. Contributions and Risks of Radiation Therapy in Managing Cancer During Pregnancy. In: Azim HA Jr, editor. Managing Cancer during Pregnancy. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 41–54.

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.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Top Scientist Reminds Republicans That “Science Is Not A Political Construct” [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/top-scientist-reminds-republicans-that-science-is-not-a-political-construct/. 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. Concerns Over Labor’s Ability To Implement the Job Training Partnership Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985 Apr. Report No.: HRD-85-61.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gu J. Measurement, modeling, and synthesis of time-varying appearance of natural phenomena [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2010.

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. Witz B. A Button-Down Game Gets a Needed Pinch of Pizazz. New York Times. 2017 Mar 15;B18.

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
Abbreviation	Drug Saf.
ISSN (print)	0114-5916
ISSN (online)	1179-1942
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology Toxicology