How to format your references using the Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models. 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 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

[1]

Chipman A. Contest puts brakes on carbon capture. Nature 2007;447:1044–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fraser P, Bickmore W. Nuclear organization of the genome and the potential for gene regulation. Nature 2007;447:413–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mignot T, Merlie JP Jr, Zusman DR. Regulated pole-to-pole oscillations of a bacterial gliding motility protein. Science 2005;310:855–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Eden A, Gaudet F, Waghmare A, Jaenisch R. Chromosomal instability and tumors promoted by DNA hypomethylation. Science 2003;300:455.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Linacre AMT, Tobe SS. Wildlife DNA Analysis. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Klapdor-Kleingrothaus HV, Arnowitt R, editors. Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics: Proceedings of the International Conference DARK 2004 College Station, USA, October 3–9, 2004. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Humar A, Khwaja KO, Sutherland DER. Pancreas Transplantation. In: Matas AJ, Payne WD, editors. Atlas of Organ Transplantation, London: Springer; 2006, p. 133–95.

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 Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Could This Biochemist’s Veggie Burger Be The Closest Thing To Real Meat? IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/could-biochemists-veggie-burger-be-closest-thing-real-meat/ (accessed 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Computer Capacity: IRS Must Better Estimate Its Computer Resource Needs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Grant L. How Does a Principal Use Intention and Strategy in the Enactment of Advocacy Leadership? Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 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]

Feeney K. A Produce Auction With an Eye to Survival. New York Times 2008:NJ9.

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	Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models
Abbreviation	Drug Discov. Today Dis. Models
ISSN (print)	1740-6757
Scope	Molecular Medicine Drug Discovery