How to format your references using the Advances in Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Therapy. 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 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. Begelman M. Astronomy. A flare for acceleration. Science. 2009;325:399–400.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Reubi O, Blundy J. A dearth of intermediate melts at subduction zone volcanoes and the petrogenesis of arc andesites. Nature. 2009;461:1269–73.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Watanabe Y, Farquhar J, Ohmoto H. Anomalous fractionations of sulfur isotopes during thermochemical sulfate reduction. Science. 2009;324:370–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Gweon G-H, Sasagawa T, Zhou SY, Graf J, Takagi H, Lee D-H, et al. An unusual isotope effect in a high-transition-temperature superconductor. Nature. 2004;430:187–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Adamczyk B. Foundations of Electromagnetic Compatibility. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

1. Haines AJ. Enhanced Surface Imaging of Crustal Deformation: Obtaining Tectonic Force Fields Using GPS Data. 1st ed. 2015. Dimitrova LL, Wallace LM, Williams CA, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wallgrün JO. Voronoi Graph Matching for Robot Localization and Mapping. In: Gavrilova ML, Tan CJK, Anton F, editors. Transactions on Computational Science IX: Special Issue on Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 76–108.

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 Advances in Therapy.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. NASA And Russia Might Send An Orbiter, Lander, And Airship To Venus In 2026 [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-and-russia-might-send-an-orbiter-lander-and-airship-to-venus-in-2026/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Crop Insurance: Savings Would Result from Program Changes and Greater Use of Data Mining. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Mar. Report No.: GAO-12-256.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Schaff S. What characterizes and impacts student transformational learning in a community college work placement context [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2013.

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. Wagner J. DeGrom Goes Where No Mets Starter Has This Year: The 9th Inning. New York Times. 2017 May 27;D3.

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	Advances in Therapy
Abbreviation	Adv. Ther.
ISSN (print)	0741-238X
ISSN (online)	1865-8652
Scope	General Medicine Pharmacology (medical)