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]

Seager S. Exoplanet habitability. Science 2013;340:577–81.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fujiwara A, Takahashi Y. Manipulation of elementary charge in a silicon charge-coupled device. Nature 2001;410:560–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Latimer AM, Silander JA Jr, Cowling RM. Neutral ecological theory reveals isolation and rapid speciation in a biodiversity hot spot. Science 2005;309:1722–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Priestley RD, Ellison CJ, Broadbelt LJ, Torkelson JM. Structural relaxation of polymer glasses at surfaces, interfaces, and in between. Science 2005;309:456–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sheriff RE, Hu YF. Mobile Satellite Communication Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2001.

An edited book

[1]

Murray-Smith R, Shorten R, editors. Switching and Learning in Feedback Systems: European Summer School on Multi-Agent Control, Maynooth, Ireland, September 8-10, 2003, Revised Lectures and Selected Papers. vol. 3355. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Melia F. The Galactic Nucleus. In: Oswalt TD, Gilmore G, editors. Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems: Volume 5: Galactic Structure and Stellar Populations, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013, p. 243–70.

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. Paralyzed Woman Flew A Fighter Jet Simulator Using Her Thoughts. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/paralyzed-woman-flew-fighter-jet-simulator-using-her-thoughts/ (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. Information on Prime Sponsor CETA Expenditures Related to Membership Organizations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ren H. Modification and Characterization of Ordered Mesoporous Carbons for Resorcinol Removal. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2014.

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]

Williams J. TV, Pre-Golden Age. New York Times 2017:BR6.

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