How to format your references using the International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics. 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

de Chadarevian S (2003) Perceptions in science. The making of an icon. Science 300:255–257

A journal article with 2 authors

Hemphill CS, Sampat B (2013) Intellectual property. Drug patents at the Supreme Court. Science 339:1386–1387

A journal article with 3 authors

Misura KM, Scheller RH, Weis WI (2000) Three-dimensional structure of the neuronal-Sec1-syntaxin 1a complex. Nature 404:355–362

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sepulchre P, Ramstein G, Fluteau F, et al (2006) Tectonic uplift and Eastern Africa aridification. Science 313:1419–1423

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goodhew S (2016) Sustainable Construction Processes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Chahl JS, Jain LC, Mizutani A, Sato-Ilic M (eds) (2007) Innovations in Intelligent Machines - 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Albright JN, Fair CD, Newman C (2016) Psychosocial Considerations for Children and Adolescents with HIV. In: Chenneville T (ed) A Clinical Guide to Pediatric HIV: Bridging the Gaps Between Research and Practice. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 73–94

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 International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics.

Blog post

Andrews R (2017) Elon Musk Wants To Fix South Australia’s Energy Crisis In Just 100 Days. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1980) Circumstances Surrounding Contract Award. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Savvas C (2010) Hydroclimate variability and landuse effects on nutrient export from watersheds in the mid-Atlantic United States. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

George T (2016) Thumbelina’s Secret Architect. New York Times A21

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (de Chadarevian 2003).
This sentence cites two references (de Chadarevian 2003; Hemphill and Sampat 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Hemphill and Sampat 2013)
Three or more authors: (Sepulchre et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Pept. Res. Ther.
ISSN (print)	1573-3149
ISSN (online)	1573-3904
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Medicine Bioengineering Analytical Chemistry Drug Discovery