How to format your references using the Drugs of the Future citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Drugs of the Future. 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

Kronenberg HM. Developmental regulation of the growth plate. Nature 2003 May 15;423(6937):332–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Britt RD, Oyala PH. Biochemistry. One step closer to O₂. Science 2014 Aug 15;345(6198):736.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mersch DP, Crespi A, Keller L. Tracking individuals shows spatial fidelity is a key regulator of ant social organization. Science 2013 May 31;340(6136):1090–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sanayama Y, Matsumoto A, Shimojo N, Kohno Y, Nakaya H. Phenylalanine sensitive K562-D cells for the analysis of the biochemical impact of excess amino acid. Sci Rep 2014 Nov 6;4:6941.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Iacus SM. Option Pricing and Estimation of Financial Models with R. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Guglielmi G. High-Resolution Radiographs of the Hand. Peh WCG, Camissa M, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Kletter D, Bern M, Haab B. Mining and Using Glycan Array Data with the GlycoSearch Analysis Program and GlycanBinder Database. In: Taniguchi N, Endo T, Hart GW, Seeberger PH, Wong C-H, editors. Glycoscience: Biology and Medicine Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015. p. 61–8.

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 of the Future.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2015’s Recording-Breaking Temperatures Will Be “New Normal” Very Soon. IFLScience IFLScience; 2016.

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. Aviation Security: TSA Has Taken Steps to Improve Oversight of Key Programs, but Additional Actions Are Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Jun. Report No.: GAO-15-678T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gindin M. Identification and Characterization of Putative Secreted Proteins from the Adult-Stage Hookworm, Ancylostoma caninum [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2012.

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

Feeney K. For Foods and ‘a Few Things.’ New York Times 2009 May 17;NJ17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 of the Future
Abbreviation	Drugs Future
ISSN (print)	0377-8282
ISSN (online)	2013-0368
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology