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]

Schiermeier Q. Internet is the new key for restructured film institute. Nature 2000;406:553.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kalia J, Swartz KJ. Exploring structure-function relationships between TRP and Kv channels. Sci Rep 2013;3:1523.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lepper C, Conway SJ, Fan C-M. Adult satellite cells and embryonic muscle progenitors have distinct genetic requirements. Nature 2009;460:627–31.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kresse G, Schmid M, Napetschnig E, Shishkin M, Köhler L, Varga P. Structure of the ultrathin aluminum oxide film on NiAl(110). Science 2005;308:1440–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Engle CR, Quagrainie KK, Dey MM. Seafood and Aquaculture Marketing Handbook. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Yoshikawa H, Zhang Z, editors. Progress of Nuclear Safety for Symbiosis and Sustainability: Advanced Digital Instrumentation, Control and Information Systems for Nuclear Power Plants. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Füss R, Kaiser DG, Adams Z. Value at Risk, GARCH Modelling and the Forecasting of Hedge Fund Return Volatility. In: Satchell S, editor. Derivatives and Hedge Funds, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016, p. 91–117.

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]

Hale T. Stunning Time-Lapse Video Of The Starry Night Sky. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/stunning-timelapse-video-of-the-starry-night-sky/ (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. SSA Computers: Long-Range Vision Needed to Guide Future Systems Modernization Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nelson T. Project Motherhood: A Grant Proposal Project. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Rueck K. “ LITTLE TIME FOR EXTRAS”; What’s a Stewardess. New York Times 1972:travel and resorts-summer vacations-part 1XX4.

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

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