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

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

Sapienza C. Molecular biology. Do Watson and Crick motor from X to Z? Science 2007;315:46–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Plaçais P-Y, Preat T. To favor survival under food shortage, the brain disables costly memory. Science 2013;339:440–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Raff MC, Whitmore AV, Finn JT. Axonal self-destruction and neurodegeneration. Science 2002;296:868–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zagotta WN, Olivier NB, Black KD, Young EC, Olson R, Gouaux E. Structural basis for modulation and agonist specificity of HCN pacemaker channels. Nature 2003;425:200–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lyshevski SE. Engineering and Scientific Computations Using MATLAB®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Picichè M, editor. Dawn and Evolution of Cardiac Procedures: Research Avenues in Cardiac Surgery and Interventional Cardiology. Milano: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kanai T, Takahashi EJ, Nabekawa Y, Midorikawa K. Heterodyne Interferometry Using High-Order Harmonic Generation in Mixed Gases. In: Yamanouchi K, Giulietti A, Ledingham K, editors. Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science: Volume V, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 65–80.

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: Therapeutic Strategies.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Oldest Sex Act Revealed. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/oldest-sex-act-revealed/ (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. Production and Quality of Education Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Belknap BM. Fostering Resilience in Beginning Special Education Teachers. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2012.

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]

Saslow L. Environmental Lawyer to Head Planning Board. New York Times 2006:LI2.

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: Therapeutic Strategies
Abbreviation	Drug Discov. Today Ther. Strateg.
ISSN (print)	1740-6773
Scope	Molecular Medicine Drug Discovery Pharmacology