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

Schneider MD. Development. A cardiac nonproliferation treaty. Science. 2011;332(6028):426-427.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zaher HS, Green R. Quality control by the ribosome following peptide bond formation. Nature. 2009;457(7226):161-166.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kreiman G, Koch C, Fried I. Imagery neurons in the human brain. Nature. 2000;408(6810):357-361.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhao J, Chu W, Guo L, et al. Terahertz imaging with sub-wavelength resolution by femtosecond laser filament in air. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3880.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hezaveh A. SAS® 9 Study Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

Dupré S, ed. Laboratories of Art: Alchemy and Art Technology from Antiquity to the 18th Century. Vol 37. Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Franklin ME, Tolin DF. What Should be Done? In: Tolin DF, ed. Treating Trichotillomania: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Hairpulling and Related Problems. Springer; 2007:51-60.

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

Andrew E. Dads Get Postnatal Depression Too. IFLScience. May 3, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dads-get-postnatal-depression-too/

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. Cuban Embargo: Selected Issues Relating to Travel, Exports, and Telecommunications. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Roy Chowdhury T. Tracking Carbon Flow during Methane Oxidation into Methanotrophs Using 13C-PLFA Labeling in Pulsing Freshwater Wetlands. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University; 2012.

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

Walsh MW. Life on the Precipice in Puerto Rico. New York Times. August 6, 2016:BU1.

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