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]

Dickson D. Anil Agarwal (1947-2002). Nature 2002;415:384.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kimmel AR, Parent CA. The signal to move: D. discoideum go orienteering. Science 2003;300:1525–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Marasco A, Limongiello A, Migliore M. Using Strahler’s analysis to reduce up to 200-fold the run time of realistic neuron models. Sci Rep 2013;3:2934.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhong H, Molday LL, Molday RS, Yau K-W. The heteromeric cyclic nucleotide-gated channel adopts a 3A:1B stoichiometry. Nature 2002;420:193–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cherian A. Energy and Global Climate Change. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Rischpater R. Beginning Nokia Apps Development: Qt and HTML5 for Symbian and MeeGo. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Nevile JW. Just and Unjust Macro-economic Policy. In: Harcourt GC, Kriesler P, Nevile JW, editors. Post-Keynesian Essays from Down Under Volume III: Essays on Ethics, Social Justice and Economics: Theory and Policy in an Historical Context, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016, p. 34–44.

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]

Hamilton K. Why Emotional Abuse In Childhood May Lead To Migraines In Adulthood. 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. Nonimmigrant Visa Processing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Boyle LL. Relationship between managerial responsiveness, managerial approachability, and prosocial voice among acute-care registered nurses. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 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]

Kelly K. Trump Has Stocks Up. Some Funds Are Leery. New York Times 2017:B1.

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

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