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

Running SW (2008) Climate change. Ecosystem disturbance, carbon, and climate. Science 321:652–653

A journal article with 2 authors

Conley ME, Fruman DA (2013) Genetics. Can cancer drugs treat immunodeficiency? Science 342:814–815

A journal article with 3 authors

Werner SC, Ody A, Poulet F (2014) The source crater of martian shergottite meteorites. Science 343:1343–1346

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Steinmetz LM, Sinha H, Richards DR, et al (2002) Dissecting the architecture of a quantitative trait locus in yeast. Nature 416:326–330

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kukushkin A (2004) Radio Wave Propagation in the Marine Boundary Layer. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Blanchette JC, Kosmatov N (eds) (2015) Tests and Proofs: 9th International Conference, TAP 2015, Held as Part of STAF 2015, L’Aquila, Italy, July 22-24, 2015. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Goyeau B (2009) Macroscopic Conduction Models by Volume Averaging for Two-Phase Systems. In: Volz S (ed) Thermal Nanosystems and Nanomaterials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 95–105

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 (2014) Lava Flow In Hawaii Incinerates Its First House. 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 (2008) Environmental Satellites: Polar-orbiting Satellite Acquisition Faces Delays; Decisions Needed on Whether and How to Ensure Climate Data Continuity. 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

Reller TL (2010) Exploring differences in teacher attitudes and instructional strategies between traditional and block schedule high schools: A comparison of two small schools. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Kelly M (1992) THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton Uses Farm Speech to Begin New Offensive. New York Times A13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Running 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Running 2008; Conley and Fruman 2013).

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

Two authors: (Conley and Fruman 2013)
Three or more authors: (Steinmetz et al. 2002)

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