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

Carmody J (2000) What if...? Nature 406:349

A journal article with 2 authors

Saltiel AR, Kahn CR (2001) Insulin signalling and the regulation of glucose and lipid metabolism. Nature 414:799–806

A journal article with 3 authors

Pearson PN, Foster GL, Wade BS (2009) Atmospheric carbon dioxide through the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition. Nature 461:1110–1113

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Scopigno T, Ruocco G, Sette F, Monaco G (2003) Is the fragility of a liquid embedded in the properties of its glass? Science 302:849–852

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Singh MP, Huhns MN (2006) Service-Oriented Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Gliński J, Horabik J, Lipiec J (eds) (2011) Encyclopedia of Agrophysics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Burkhardt CE, Leventhal JJ (2008) Time-Dependent States in One Dimension. In: Leventhal JJ (ed) Foundations of Quantum Physics. Springer, New York, NY, pp 1–29

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

Andrew E (2015) How To Identify Someone With A Rare Disease. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-identify-someone-rare-disease/. 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 (1992) Air Traffic Control: Challenges Facing FAA’s Modernization Program. 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

James TC (2017) African American Students in a California Community College: Perceptions of Cultural Congruity and Academic Self-Concept within a Black Culture Center. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

St. John Kelly E (1994) PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times 1315

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carmody 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Carmody 2000; Saltiel and Kahn 2001).

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

Two authors: (Saltiel and Kahn 2001)
Three or more authors: (Scopigno et al. 2003)

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