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

Kelly WL. Biochemistry: life imitates art. Nature. 2011;473(7345):35-36.

A journal article with 2 authors

Libuda DE, Winston F. Amplification of histone genes by circular chromosome formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nature. 2006;443(7114):1003-1007.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carpi F, Bauer S, De Rossi D. Materials science. Stretching dielectric elastomer performance. Science. 2010;330(6012):1759-1761.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Stadler MB, Murr R, Burger L, et al. DNA-binding factors shape the mouse methylome at distal regulatory regions. Nature. 2011;480(7378):490-495.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahmad SR, Cartwright M. Laser Ignition of Energetic Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Lin CYY. The Impact of Societal and Social Innovation: A Case-Based Approach. (Chen J, ed.). Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Knauth S, Kaufmann L, Jost C, Kistler R, Klapproth A. The iLoc Ultrasound Indoor Localization System at the EvAAL 2011 Competition. In: Chessa S, Knauth S, eds. Evaluating AAL Systems Through Competitive Benchmarking. Indoor Localization and Tracking: International Competition, EvAAL 2011, Competition in Valencia, Spain, July 25-29, 2011, and Final Workshop in Lecce, Italy, September 26, 2011. Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer; 2012:52-64.

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. Early Humans May Have Migrated Out Of Africa Through Egypt. IFLScience. Published May 28, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/egypt-major-route-early-humans-migration-out-africa/

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. Costs and Benefits of a Common Strategic Rotary Launcher Should Be Reassessed Before Further Funds Are Available. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pavuluri VK. Field Oriented Control of Induction Motors Based on DSP Controller. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 2014.

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

Pilon M. Before Games, Religious Questions. New York Times. March 3, 2012:D1.

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

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