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

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

[1]

Fuyuno I. Olympus finds market rival hard to swallow. Nature 2005;438:913.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ponce de León MS, Zollikofer CP. Neanderthal cranial ontogeny and its implications for late hominid diversity. Nature 2001;412:534–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Maskus KE, Mobarak AM, Stuen ET. Economics. Doctoral students and U.S. immigration policy. Science 2013;342:562–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lingel A, Simon B, Izaurralde E, Sattler M. Structure and nucleic-acid binding of the Drosophila Argonaute 2 PAZ domain. Nature 2003;426:465–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Spatschek K-H. High Temperature Plasmas. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Snarskii AA. Transport Processes in Macroscopically Disordered Media: From Mean Field Theory to Percolation. New York, NY: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Borin JF, McDougall EM. Ureteral Stent for Ureteral Stricture. In: Baba S, Ono Y, editors. Interventional Management of Urological Diseases, Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2006, p. 75–86.

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: Technologies.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Brainy Bones: The Hidden Complexity Inside Your Skeleton. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/brainy-bones-hidden-complexity-inside-your-skeleton/ (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. Federal Research: Small Business Innovation Research Program Shows Success but Can Be Strengthened. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Cheung M. An integrated change model in project management. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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

[1]

Corkery M, Walsh MW. Island Trips for Treasury. New York Times 2015:B1.

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: Technologies
Abbreviation	Drug Discov. Today Technol.
ISSN (print)	1740-6749
Scope	Biotechnology Molecular Medicine Drug Discovery