How to format your references using the Combination Products in Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Combination Products 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. Minelli A. Developmental biology. Bits and pieces. Science. 2004;306:1693–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Allen PA, Hoffman PF. Extreme winds and waves in the aftermath of a Neoproterozoic glaciation. Nature. 2005;433:123–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Schmith T, Johansen S, Thejll P. Comment on “A semi-empirical approach to projecting future sea-level rise.” Science. 2007;317:1866; author reply 1866.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Möller S, Perlov C, Jackson W, Taussig C, Forrest SR. A polymer/semiconductor write-once read-many-times memory. Nature. 2003;426:166–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Barker P, Chang J. Basic Family Therapy. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Schuster A, editor. Robust Intelligent Systems. 1st ed. London: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gan L, Yin Z, Jia N, Xu S, Ma S, Zheng L. Household Financial Assets. In: Yin Z, Jia N, Xu S, Ma S, Zheng L, editors. Data you need to know about China: Research Report of China Household Finance Survey•2012. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 95–132.

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 Combination Products in Therapy.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Revolutionary New Spacesuit Has First Trial [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/revolutionary-spacesuit-has-first-trial/

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. School Age Demographics: Recent Trends Pose New Educational Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Aug. Report No.: HRD-93-105BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Dorrance AM. The Role of the Partial Tandem Duplication of MLL (MLL PTD) in Leukemogenesis [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2008.

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. Van Gelder SKC by L. Arts, Briefly; A New Yorker Clone Folds. New York Times. 2005 Jan 21;E5.

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	Combination Products in Therapy
ISSN (print)	2195-5859
ISSN (online)	2190-9180
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