How to format your references using the ASSAY and Drug Development Technologies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ASSAY and Drug Development Technologies. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Reichhardt T: Space researchers protest at “disruptive” export controls. Nature 2000;404:321.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson S, Coulter D: Neuroscience. Neuronal birth to cortical circuitry. Science 2013;340:1058–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

He Y, Xue G-H, Fu J-Z: Fabrication of low cost soft tissue prostheses with the desktop 3D printer. Sci Rep 2014;4:6973.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Piel FB, Howes RE, Patil AP, et al.: The distribution of haemoglobin C and its prevalence in newborns in Africa. Sci Rep 2013;3:1671.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bottjer DJ: Paleoecology. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016.

An edited book

Spearman P, Freed EO, editors: HIV Interactions with Host Cell Proteins. vol. 339. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Alaniz J: Standing Orders: Oracle, Disability, and Retconning. In: Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives (Foss C, Gray JW, Whalen Z, eds.), pp. 59–79. London, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016.

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 ASSAY and Drug Development Technologies.

Blog post

Davis J: Incredible Preservation Of 125-Million-Year-Old Mammal Shows Soft Tissues And Hair. IFLScience 2015. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/incredible-preservation-125-million-year-old-mammal-shows-soft-tissues-and-hair/. Last accessed on October 30, 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

Government Accountability Office: Transportation Security Research: Coordination Needed in Selecting and Implementing Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessments. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Quiroz CA: A community risk assessment of 90032. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

Montague J: For the Obscure, a Welcome Payday. New York Times 2017:B11.

In-text citations

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

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	ASSAY and Drug Development Technologies
ISSN (print)	1540-658X
ISSN (online)	1557-8127
Scope

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