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. Jenkins M. Prospects for biodiversity. Science. 2003;302:1175–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lu TT, Cyster JG. Integrin-mediated long-term B cell retention in the splenic marginal zone. Science. 2002;297:409–12.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Dian BC, Longarte A, Zwier TS. Conformational dynamics in a dipeptide after single-mode vibrational excitation. Science. 2002;296:2369–73.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Rahul PRC, Bhawar RL, Ayantika DC, Panicker AS, Safai PD, Tharaprabhakaran V, et al. Double blanket effect caused by two layers of black carbon aerosols escalates warming in the Brahmaputra River Valley. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3670.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Robinson MD. An Employer’s and Engineer’s Guide to the FIDIC Conditions of Contract. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

1. Bernas H, editor. Materials Science with Ion Beams. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Borchers H-J, Sen RN. Local Structure and Topology. In: Sen RN, editor. Mathematical Implications of Einstein-Weyl Causality. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 31–50.

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. Fang J. Scientists Explain Why We Can’t Resist Puppy Dog Eyes. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Telephone Communications: Bell Operating Company Entry Into New Lines of Business. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986 Apr. Report No.: RCED-86-138.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Beechey SN. The politics of deservingness: Discourses of gender, race, *class, and age in the 2005 Social Security debates [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington 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. Dinardo K. David Furnish Pours Champagne for Las Vegas. New York Times. 2014 Aug 17;TR3.

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
Scope