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]

Weijer CJ. Visualizing signals moving in cells. Science 2003;300:96–100.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gray J, Druker B. Genomics: the breast cancer landscape. Nature 2012;486:328–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Serganov A, Huang L, Patel DJ. Coenzyme recognition and gene regulation by a flavin mononucleotide riboswitch. Nature 2009;458:233–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Pan Y, Birdsey RA, Fang J, Houghton R, Kauppi PE, Kurz WA, et al. A large and persistent carbon sink in the world’s forests. Science 2011;333:988–93.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Liu H, Li G. OFDM-Based Broadband Wireless Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Avgeriou P, editor. Software Engineering for Resilient Systems: 4th International Workshop, SERENE 2012, Pisa, Italy, September 27-28, 2012. Proceedings. vol. 7527. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dachman-Soled D, Dov Gordon S, Liu F-H, O’Neill A, Zhou H-S. Leakage-Resilient Public-Key Encryption from Obfuscation. In: Cheng C-M, Chung K-M, Persiano G, Yang B-Y, editors. Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2016: 19th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, Taipei, Taiwan, March 6-9, 2016, Proceedings, Part II, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016, p. 101–28.

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]

Fang J. UK Bans Teaching Creationism in State-Funded Schools. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/uk-bans-teaching-creationism-state-funded-schools/ (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. Aviation Safety: Better Data and Targeted FAA Efforts Needed to Identify and Address Safety Issues of Small Air Cargo Carriers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Krug KA. Critical literacy in the face of a mandated curriculum: Can children read beyond the text? Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2009.

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]

Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times 2017:C30.

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