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]

Scholze M. Earth network. Nature 2007;447:228.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

di Bernardo D, Murray A. Explaining the T-wave shape in the ECG. Nature 2000;403:40.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Thornton JW, Need E, Crews D. Resurrecting the ancestral steroid receptor: ancient origin of estrogen signaling. Science 2003;301:1714–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Garrido JJ, Giraud P, Carlier E, Fernandes F, Moussif A, Fache M-P, et al. A targeting motif involved in sodium channel clustering at the axonal initial segment. Science 2003;300:2091–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Minelli M, Chambers M, Dhiraj A. Big Data, Big Analytics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Hammami O, Krob D, Voirin J-L, editors. Complex Systems Design & Management: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Complex Systems Design & Management CSDM 2011. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wang X, Liang S, Li W, Zhou D. High Speed Train Bogie Wheel-Rail Relative Vibration with Bench Reconstruction Technology. In: Ni Y-Q, Ye X-W, editors. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on High-Speed and Intercity Railways: Volume 1, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 39–49.

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]

Andrew E. Why Is This Comet Shaped Like A Duck? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/comets-shape-puzzles-astronomers/ (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. [Comments on FAA Employee’s Claim for Backpay]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Yoon Y. Nano-tribology of discrete track recording media. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 2010.

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]

Qiu L. Pre-Existing Conditions: There’s Truth-Stretching From Both Sides. New York Times 2017:A13.

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