How to format your references using the Drugs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Drugs. 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. Koenig R. IRANIAN SCIENCE: Iranian Women Hear the Call of Science. Science. 2000;290:1485.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Manne AS, Richels RG. An alternative approach to establishing trade-offs among greenhouse gases. Nature. 2001;410:675–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kennedy M, Mrofka D, von der Borch C. Snowball Earth termination by destabilization of equatorial permafrost methane clathrate. Nature. 2008;453:642–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lesser MP, Mazel CH, Gorbunov MY, Falkowski PG. Discovery of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria in corals. Science. 2004;305:997–1000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Gray R. A History of American Literature. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

1. Catarci T, Forner P, Hiemstra D, Peñas A, Santucci G, editors. Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visual Analytics: Third International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2012, Rome, Italy, September 17-20, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Garcia KB, Malabrigo PL, Gevaña DT. Philippines’ Mangrove Ecosystem: Status, Threats and Conservation. In: Faridah-Hanum I, Latiff A, Hakeem KR, Ozturk M, editors. Mangrove Ecosystems of Asia: Status, Challenges and Management Strategies. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 81–94.

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 Drugs.

Blog post

1. Fang J. New Fossil Provides Insight Into Shark Evolution [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-fossil-provides-insight-shark-evolution/. 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. Use of Minicomputers for Internal Revenue Service Tax Return Preparation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Feb. Report No.: 107397.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Frederiksen MD. Engaging physicians to support corporate compliance programs: A grounded theory study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2013.

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. Gustines GG. These Superheros Come With Lipstick. New York Times. 2016 Feb 14;ST8.

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	Drugs
Abbreviation	Drugs
ISSN (print)	0012-6667
ISSN (online)	1179-1950
Scope	Pharmacology (medical)