How to format your references using the Discovery Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Discovery Medicine. 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

Gershon D. Proteomics technologies: probing the proteome. Nature 424(6948):581–587, 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Munk MR, Rückert R. To work or not shouldn’t be a question. Science 348(6233):470, 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palenzuela C, Lehner L, Liebling SL. Dual jets from binary black holes. Science 329(5994):927–930, 2010.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Preker P, Nielsen J, Kammler S, Lykke-Andersen S, Christensen MS, Mapendano CK, Schierup MH, Jensen TH. RNA exosome depletion reveals transcription upstream of active human promoters. Science 322(5909):1851–1854, 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwartz D. The Future of Finance. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809, 2010.

An edited book

Fauquet-Alekhine P, Pehuet N (eds.). Simulation Training: Fundamentals and Applications: Improving Professional Practice Through Simulation Training. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Gulko E, Miller T, Brook A. Technical Considerations in Percutaneous Placement of Spinal Cord Stimulation Devices. In: Spinal Canal Stenosis. Manfrè L (ed.). pp.87–93. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

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 Discovery Medicine.

Blog post

Carpineti A. The Rules Of Star Formation Have Changed Over The Course Of The Universe. 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

Government Accountability Office. Information Technology: Architecture Needed to Guide Modernization of DOD’s Financial Operations. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Woerner LC. Complicated grief: A case study of pathological bereavement. 2010.

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

Kishkovsky S. Distance Learning: RussiaIs Reaching Out. New York Times:4A28, 2001.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon, 2003; Munk and Rückert, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Munk and Rückert, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Preker et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Discovery Medicine
ISSN (print)	1539-6509
ISSN (online)	1944-7930
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