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]

Krot AN. Planetary science. Bringing part of an asteroid back home. Science 2011;333:1098–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bradshaw GA, Finlay BL. Natural symmetry. Nature 2005;435:149.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bradley P, Misura KMS, Baker D. Toward high-resolution de novo structure prediction for small proteins. Science 2005;309:1868–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wu C, Cheng Y-Y, Yin H, Song X-N, Li W-W, Zhou X-X, et al. Oxygen promotes biofilm formation of Shewanella putrefaciens CN32 through a diguanylate cyclase and an adhesin. Sci Rep 2013;3:1945.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Soustelle M. Thermodynamics of Surfaces and Capillary Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Akhtar R, Dutt AK, Wadhwa V, editors. Malaria in South Asia: Eradication and Resurgence During the Second Half of the Twentieth Century. vol. 1. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chen N, Engelberg R, Nguyen CT, Raghavendra P, Rudra A, Singh G. Improved Approximation Algorithms for the Spanning Star Forest Problem. In: Charikar M, Jansen K, Reingold O, Rolim JDP, editors. Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques: 10th International Workshop, APPROX 2007, and 11th International Workshop, RANDOM 2007, Princeton, NJ, USA, August 20-22, 2007. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007, p. 44–58.

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]

Davis J. Scientists Watch As Wasps Diverge To Become Separate Species. IFLScience 2015.

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. Mass Transit: Issues Related to Providing Dedicated Funding for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Poudyal Kharel A. Pyrolysis Studies of Copper and Copper Phosphate Mixtures on a Tungsten Surface. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2015.

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]

Gustines GG. A Bird? A Plane? La Borinqueña! New York Times 2016:MB4.

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