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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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. Martin SJ. Cell biology. Opening the cellular poison cabinet. Science. 2010;330:1330–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dandekar P, Doherty MF. Materials science. Imaging crystallization. Science. 2014;344:705–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Minai L, Yeheskely-Hayon D, Yelin D. High levels of reactive oxygen species in gold nanoparticle-targeted cancer cells following femtosecond pulse irradiation. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2146.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Turner J, King JC, Lachlan-Cope TA, Jones PD. Recent temperature trends in the Antarctic. Nature. 2002;418:291–2; discussion 292.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Balan V, Neagu M. Jet Single-Time Lagrange Geometry and Its Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Welfens PJJ, Ryan C, Chirathivat S, Knipping F, editors. EU - Asean: Facing Economic Globalisation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Fischer V, Ruzhansky M. Rockland operators and Sobolev spaces. In: Ruzhansky M, editor. Quantization on Nilpotent Lie Groups. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 171–269.

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. Fang J. Parasitic Mites Pick The Most Nutritious Honeybees [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mites-prefer-nurses/

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. Taxpayer Information: Data Sharing and Analysis May Enhance Tax Compliance and Improve Immigration Eligibility Decisions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Jul. Report No.: GAO-04-972T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Cruz S. Keeping families together: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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. Kalogerakis G. A Life in Pictures. New York Times. 2012 May 25;MM50.

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)