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. Goldberg DE. Parasitology. When the host is smarter than the parasite. Science. 2002;296:482–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Pörtner HO, Knust R. Climate change affects marine fishes through the oxygen limitation of thermal tolerance. Science. 2007;315:95–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ruefli-Brasse AA, French DM, Dixit VM. Regulation of NF-kappaB-dependent lymphocyte activation and development by paracaspase. Science. 2003;302:1581–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Bower GC, Falcke H, Herrnstein RM, Zhao J-H, Goss WM, Backer DC. Detection of the intrinsic size of Sagittarius A* through closure amplitude imaging. Science. 2004;304:704–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Banerjee S, Lawrence V. Managing Dementia in a Multicultural Society. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

1. Kazimierski Z. Externally Heated Valve Engine: A New Approach to Piston Engines. 1st ed. 2016. Wojewoda J, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Antoldi F, Cerrato D, Depperu D. The Management of Export Consortia: A Pragmatic Approach. In: Cerrato D, Depperu D, editors. Export Consortia in Developing Countries: Successful Management of Cooperation Among SMEs. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 79–118.

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. Andrew E. United Airlines will use Animal Poop to Power its Jets [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/united-airlines-will-use-animal-poop-power-its-jets/

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. The Case for Programwide Statistical Reviews of Fraud and Abuse. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982 Jan. Report No.: 118596.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Masuyama G. The Bird Is A Word [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Cave D, Kwai I. Drug Trafficker and Australian Obsession Returns Home. New York Times. 2017 May 27;A4.

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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