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. Bignami GF. Astronomy. Two missions, one microquasar. Science. 2009;326:1490–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Begley CG, Ellis LM. Drug development: Raise standards for preclinical cancer research. Nature. 2012;483:531–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Emile O, Le Floch A, Vollrath F. Biopolymers: shape memory in spider draglines. Nature. 2006;440:621.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ronquist F, Larget B, Huelsenbeck JP, Kadane JB, Simon D, van der Mark P. Comment on “Phylogenetic MCMC algorithms are misleading on mixtures of trees.” Science. 2006;312:367; author reply 367.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Maré J-C. Aerospace Actuators 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

1. Burger J, editor. Stakeholders and Scientists: Achieving Implementable Solutions to Energy and Environmental Issues. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Tarantino U, Resmini G. Valutazione dei pazienti con fratture da fragilità e/o con bassa BMD (T-score<-2,5) in presenza di uno o più fattori di rischio. In: Resmini G, editor. La gestione delle fratture da fragilità ossea: Raccomandazioni per chirurghi ortopedici. Milano: Springer; 2011. p. 19–19.

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. Andrew E. Milky Way galaxy likely formed inside out [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/milky-way-galaxy-likely-formed-inside-out/

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. Awarding and Implementing an Emergency School Aid Act Grant to the North End Concerned Citizens Community Council, Detroit, Michigan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974 Aug. Report No.: B-164031(1).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Khojandi N. Investigating Secondary Infections and their Impact on Host Fitness in the Dictyostelium-Burkholderia Symbiosis System [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2017.

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. Wilson M. Jurors See Key Evidence in Chelsea Bombing: Articles on How to Build Bombs. New York Times. 2017 Oct 3;A21.

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)