How to format your references using the Discovery Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Discovery Medicine. 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

Dushoff J. Comment on “Metapopulation persistence with age-dependent disturbance or succession.” Science 304(5671):684; author reply 684, 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hammond EM, Giaccia AJ. Antiangiogenic therapy and p53. Science 297(5581):471; discussion 471, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Singh R, Jamieson A, Cresswell P. GILT is a critical host factor for Listeria monocytogenes infection. Nature 455(7217):1244–1247, 2008.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Quesenberry PJ, Dooner G, Dooner M, Abedi M. Developmental biology: Ignoratio elenchi: red herrings in stem cell research. Science 308(5725):1121–1122, 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rangarao KV, Mallik RK. Digital Signal Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

D’Auria R. From Special Relativity to Feynman Diagrams: A Course in Theoretical Particle Physics for Beginners. 2nd ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Lin J-L, Yan H-S. Modern Reconstruction Research. In: Decoding the Mechanisms of Antikythera Astronomical Device. Yan H-S (ed.). pp.63–84. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 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 Discovery Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. Griffin the Parrot Demonstrates the Ability to Share. IFLScience 2014.

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. Bonneville’s ADP Resource Management Controls Show Improvement, but More Needs To Be Done. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Roy R. “Jagoron: Awakening” to Gender in Non Governmental Organizations in Contemporary Bengal. 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

Gordon MR. U.S. Military Says It Shot Down Drone That Attacked American Allies in Syria. New York Times:A10, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Dushoff, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Hammond and Giaccia, 2002; Dushoff, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Hammond and Giaccia, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Quesenberry et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Discovery Medicine
ISSN (print)	1539-6509
ISSN (online)	1944-7930
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