How to format your references using the ASSAY and Drug Development Technologies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ASSAY and Drug Development Technologies (ADT). 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Grove EA. Neuroscience. Organizing the source of memory. Science 2008;319(5861):288–289.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vukmirovic OG, Tilghman SM. Exploring genome space. Nature 2000;405(6788):820–822.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kogan A, Amasha S, Kastner MA. Photon-induced Kondo satellites in a single-electron transistor. Science 2004;304(5675):1293–1295.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Simmons G, Glynn SA, Komaroff AL, et al. Failure to confirm XMRV/MLVs in the blood of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: a multi-laboratory study. Science 2011;334(6057):814–817.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Samonas M. Financial Forecasting, Analysis, and Modelling. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2015.

An edited book

Henkel M. Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions: Volume 2: Ageing and Dynamical Scaling Far from Equilibrium. (Pleimling M. ed). Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Durinovic-Belló I, Nepom GT. Characterizing T-Cell Autoimmunity. In: Immunoendocrinology: Scientific and Clinical Aspects. (Eisenbarth GS. ed) Humana Press: Totowa, NJ; 2011; pp. 53–68.

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 ASSAY and Drug Development Technologies.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Hubble Spots “Runaway Star” Kicked Out Of A System 540 Years Ago. IFLScience; 2017. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-spots-runaway-star-kicked-out-of-a-system-540-years-ago/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. Fiscal Year 2011 Agreed-Upon Procedures for Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bottorff EA. The Community College Baccalaureate: A Study of Capital Costs in Florida. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University: Boca Raton, FL; 2011.

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

Olmsted SA. DEPUTY MAYOR IDEA NOT NEW; Tammany Objection to the Charter Plan Regarded as Baseless. New York Times 1936;BOOKS20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	ASSAY and Drug Development Technologies
ISSN (print)	1540-658X
ISSN (online)	1557-8127
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