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]

Brown JR. Climate science: El Niño’s variable history. Nature 2014;515:494–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chu S, Majumdar A. Opportunities and challenges for a sustainable energy future. Nature 2012;488:294–303.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

McGuire JJ, Boettcher MS, Jordan TH. Foreshock sequences and short-term earthquake predictability on East Pacific Rise transform faults. Nature 2005;434:457–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Fornadi K, Ronai KZ, Turanyi CZ, Malavade TS, Shapiro CM, Novak M, et al. Sleep apnea is not associated with worse outcomes in kidney transplant recipients. Sci Rep 2014;4:6987.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

McEvily AJ. Metal Failures. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Kamkin A, Kiseleva I, editors. Mechanosensitive Ion Channels. vol. 1. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hatami-Marbini H, Picu CR. Modeling the Mechanics of Semiflexible Biopolymer Networks: Non-affine Deformation and Presence of Long-range Correlations. In: Sun B, editor. Advances in Soft Matter Mechanics, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 119–45.

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]

Carpineti A. New Study Claims That Life On Mars Is A Serious Possibility. IFLScience 2016.

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. Federal Research: The National Academy of Sciences and the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Cai S. 3D Numerical Modeling of Dry/Wet Contact Mechanics for Rough, Multilayered Elastic-Plastic Solid Surfaces and Effects of Hydrophilicity/Hydrophobicity During Separation with Applications. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 2008.

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]

Koblin J. HBO’s ‘Veep’ to End In 2018 After 7 Seasons. New York Times 2017:C3.

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