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

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

[1]

Coyne JA. Evolution. Ernst Mayr (1904-2005). Science 2005;307:1212–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chhowalla M, Amaratunga GA. Thin films of fullerene-like MoS2 nanoparticles with ultra-low friction and wear. Nature 2000;407:164–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lebedev S, Chevrot S, van der Hilst RD. Seismic evidence for olivine phase changes at the 410- and 660-kilometer discontinuities. Science 2002;296:1300–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Antonaglia J, Xie X, Schwarz G, Wraith M, Qiao J, Zhang Y, et al. Tuned critical avalanche scaling in bulk metallic glasses. Sci Rep 2014;4:4382.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wiebe VJ. Drug Therapy for Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Clover DE. The Nature of Transformation: Environmental Adult Education. vol. 11. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bulut N, Tomoda Y, Tanikawa K, Takahashi S, Maekawa S. Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Anderson Magnetic Impurities in Semiconductors. In: Aktas B, Mikailov F, editors. Advances in Nanoscale Magnetism: Proceedings of the International Conference on Nanoscale Magnetism ICNM-2007 June 25–29, Istanbul, Turkey, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 67–87.

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: Technologies.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. How Long Would It Take To Fall Through The Center Of The Earth? 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. National Transportation Safety Board: Issues Related to the 2010 Reauthorization. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hendry M. The Lonely Nineteenth Century: Loneliness and the Female Protagonist in the Victorian Novel. 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]

Murphy MJO. The Rise of Modigliani’s Profile, and the Asking Prices for His Works. New York Times 2015:C36.

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: Technologies
Abbreviation	Drug Discov. Today Technol.
ISSN (print)	1740-6749
Scope	Biotechnology Molecular Medicine Drug Discovery