How to format your references using the Drug Invention Today citation style

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

Leek PJ. Applied physics. Storing quantum information in Schrödinger’s cats. Science. 2013;342(6158):568-569.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brockes JP, Kumar A. Appendage regeneration in adult vertebrates and implications for regenerative medicine. Science. 2005;310(5756):1919-1923.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prins MW, Welters WJ, Weekamp JW. Fluid control in multichannel structures by electrocapillary pressure. Science. 2001;291(5502):277-280.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang J, Gudiksen MS, Duan X, Cui Y, Lieber CM. Highly polarized photoluminescence and photodetection from single indium phosphide nanowires. Science. 2001;293(5534):1455-1457.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Misstear B, Banks D, Clark L. Water Wells and Boreholes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Hargrave BT, ed. Environmental Effects of Marine Finfish Aquaculture. Vol 5M. Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Bertrand T. Lectures on DG-Categories. In: Cortiñas G, Meyer R, Sánchez-García R, Schlichting M, Toën B, eds. Topics in Algebraic and Topological K-Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer; 2011:243-302.

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 Invention Today.

Blog post

Andrew E. Viagra Could Help Fight Malaria. IFLScience. May 14, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/viagra-could-help-fight-malaria/

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. Telecommunications: Preliminary Observations about Consumer Satisfaction and Problems with Wireless Phone Service and FCC’s Efforts to Assist Consumers with Complaints. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tambornini TF. Supportive and Subsidized Housing Solutions for Sonoma County: A Grant Project. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Greenhouse L. A Ceremonial Start to the Session as the Supreme Court Welcomes a New Chief Justice. New York Times. October 4, 2005:A25.

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	Drug Invention Today
Abbreviation	Drug Inven. Today
ISSN (print)	0975-7619
Scope	Drug Discovery