How to format your references using the International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics. 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

Richter FM (2011) Isotope fractionation in silicate melts by thermal diffusion. Nature 472:E1; discussion E2-3

A journal article with 2 authors

Camerer CF, Fehr E (2006) When does “economic man” dominate social behavior? Science 311:47–52

A journal article with 3 authors

Faehnle CR, Walleshauser J, Joshua-Tor L (2014) Mechanism of Dis3l2 substrate recognition in the Lin28-let-7 pathway. Nature 514:252–256

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang SL, Yu Y, Roos J, et al (2005) STIM1 is a Ca2+ sensor that activates CRAC channels and migrates from the Ca2+ store to the plasma membrane. Nature 437:902–905

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reeve WD (2006) DC Power System Design for Telecommunications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lepri S (ed) (2016) Thermal Transport in Low Dimensions: From Statistical Physics to Nanoscale Heat Transfer. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Oliveira LB, Fernandes JR, Filanovsky IM, et al (2008) Quadrature Oscillator-Mixer. In: Fernandes JR, Filanovsky IM, Verhoeven CJM, Silva MM (eds) Analysis and Design of Quadrature Oscillators. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 63–80

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 International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Beautiful Bubblegum Coral On The Seabed Of The Mariana Region. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/beautiful-bubblegum-coral-on-the-seabed-of-the-mariana-region/. 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

Government Accountability Office (1999) Surface Infrastructure: High-Speed Rail Projects in the United States. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

LeBlanc DC (2008) The relationship between Information Technology project manager personality type and project success. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Feeney K (2007) After a Fire, A Fishery Is Restocked. New York Times NJ6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Richter 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Camerer and Fehr 2006; Richter 2011).

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

Two authors: (Camerer and Fehr 2006)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Pept. Res. Ther.
ISSN (print)	1573-3149
ISSN (online)	1573-3904
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Medicine Bioengineering Analytical Chemistry Drug Discovery