How to format your references using the Investigational New Drugs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Investigational New Drugs. 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

Chambers J (2014) Planetary science: A chronometer for Earth’s age. Nature 508:51–52

A journal article with 2 authors

Hattori M, Gouaux E (2012) Molecular mechanism of ATP binding and ion channel activation in P2X receptors. Nature 485:207–212

A journal article with 3 authors

Levison HF, Kretke KA, Duncan MJ (2015) Growing the gas-giant planets by the gradual accumulation of pebbles. Nature 524:322–324

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hsiung F, Ramirez-Weber F-A, Iwaki DD, Kornberg TB (2005) Dependence of Drosophila wing imaginal disc cytonemes on Decapentaplegic. Nature 437:560–563

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Assing D, Calé S (2013) Mobile Access Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA

An edited book

Basner RC, Parthasarathy S (2015) Nocturnal Non-Invasive Ventilation: Theory, Evidence, and Clinical Practice, 1st ed. 2015. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Meslé F, Vallin J, Shkolnikov V (2012) Eighty Years of Sex-Specific and Age-Specific Mortality Trends. In: Vallin J (ed) Mortality and Causes of Death in 20th-Century Ukraine. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 89–101

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 Investigational New Drugs.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Doctors Pull Live Cricket Out Of Man’s Ear. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/doctors-pull-live-cricket-out-mans-ear/. 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 (1998) Information Technology: Assessment of the Department of Commerce’s Report on Workforce Demand and Supply. 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

Monosky KA (2010) Perceived effectiveness and utility of various EMS credentials. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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 (2007) Justices Take Up Police Use of Lethal Force. New York Times A13

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	Investigational New Drugs
Abbreviation	Invest. New Drugs
ISSN (print)	0167-6997
ISSN (online)	1573-0646
Scope	Oncology Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology