How to format your references using the Drug Invention Today citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Drug Invention Today. 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	Download the output style file
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

Coe H. Atmospheric science. Aerosol chemistry and the Deepwater Horizon spill. Science. 2011;331(6022):1273-1274.

A journal article with 2 authors

Georgescu RE, O’Donnell M. Structural biology. Getting DNA to unwind. Science. 2007;317(5842):1181-1182.

A journal article with 3 authors

Behringer DC, Butler MJ, Shields JD. Ecology: avoidance of disease by social lobsters. Nature. 2006;441(7092):421.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wasmer C, Lange A, Van Melckebeke H, Siemer AB, Riek R, Meier BH. Amyloid fibrils of the HET-s(218-289) prion form a beta solenoid with a triangular hydrophobic core. Science. 2008;319(5869):1523-1526.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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

An edited book

Fultz B. Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials. 4th ed. 2013. (Howe J, ed.). Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Czajewski W, Mrówka P, Olszewski P. Video Processing for Detection and Tracking of Pedestrians and Vehicles at Zebra Crossings. In: Mikulski J, ed. Tools of Transport Telematics: 15th International Conference on Transport Systems Telematics, TST 2015, Wrocław, Poland, April 15-17, 2015. Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing; 2015:34-44.

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 Drug Invention Today.

Blog post

Fang J. Britain Announces Creation Of World’s Largest Marine Reserve. IFLScience. March 19, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/worlds-largest-marine-reserve-be-created-around-pitcairn-islands/

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

Government Accountability Office. USDA Telecommunications: Better Management and Network Planning Could Save Millions. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wilson WC. Life Satisfaction of Air Force Civilian Male Spouses. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 2015.

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

ABBY GOODNOUGH; Linda Brockman contributed reporting from Fort Lauderdale for this article. Wanting Facts Firsthand, Teenager Makes Secret Trip to Iraq. New York Times. December 31, 2005:A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Drug Invention Today
Abbreviation	Drug Inven. Today
ISSN (print)	0975-7619
Scope	Drug Discovery