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

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

Kuo AD. Biophysics. Harvesting energy by improving the economy of human walking. Science 2005 Sep 9;309(5741):1686–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Luo Z-X, Wible JR. A Late Jurassic digging mammal and early mammalian diversification. Science 2005 Apr 1;308(5718):103–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nowak MA, Komarova NL, Niyogi P. Computational and evolutionary aspects of language. Nature 2002 Jun 6;417(6889):611–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rogers LJ, Rigosi E, Frasnelli E, Vallortigara G. A right antenna for social behaviour in honeybees. Sci Rep 2013;3:2045.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arduin P-E, Grundstein M, Rosenthal-Sabroux C. Information and Knowledge System. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

Castano V. Resilient computer system design. Schagaev I, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Brehmer M. PNL: Indications and Guidelines: Stenosis and Tumours. In: Scoffone CM, Hoznek A, Cracco CM, editors. Supine Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy and ECIRS: The New Way of Interpreting PNL Paris: Springer; 2014. p. 33–40.

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 Drugs of Today.

Blog post

Taub B. Psychedelic Lichen May Contain Multiple Hallucinogenic Compounds [Internet]. IFLScience IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/psychedelic-lichen-may-contain-multiple-hallucinogenic-compounds/

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Federal Reserve Is Acting to Ensure Financial Institutions Are Fixing Systems, But Challenges Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Sep. Report No.: AIMD-98-248.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Matos G. Re-fashioning goddesses: Exploring women’s archetypal fashion in the classroom [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 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

Crow K. With Young Rhythm in His Bones, A Drummers’ Drummer Turns 80. New York Times 2000 Sep 17;146.

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 Today
ISSN (print)	1699-3993
ISSN (online)	1699-4019
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