How to format your references using the Inventions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Inventions. 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

Robinson, A. Ancient Civilization: Cracking the Indus Script. Nature 2015, 526, 499–501.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dynek, J.N.; Smith, S. Resolution of Sister Telomere Association Is Required for Progression through Mitosis. Science 2004, 304, 97–100.

A journal article with 3 authors

Boisvert, C.A.; Mark-Kurik, E.; Ahlberg, P.E. The Pectoral Fin of Panderichthys and the Origin of Digits. Nature 2008, 456, 636–638.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Folco, L.; Di Martino, M.; El Barkooky, A.; D’Orazio, M.; Lethy, A.; Urbini, S.; Nicolosi, I.; Hafez, M.; Cordier, C.; van Ginneken, M.; et al. The Kamil Crater in Egypt. Science 2010, 329, 804.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinlan, J.; VanderBrug, J. Gender Lens Investing; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2016; ISBN 9781119182870.

An edited book

Law, Development and Innovation; Bellantuono, G., Lara, F.T., Eds.; SxI - Springer for Innovation / SxI - Springer per l’Innovazione; 1st ed. 2016.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; Vol. 13; ISBN 9783319133102.

A chapter in an edited book

Naunheimer, H.; Bertsche, B.; Ryborz, J.; Novak, W. Power Conversion: Selecting the Ratios. In Automotive Transmissions: Fundamentals, Selection, Design and Application; Bertsche, B., Ryborz, J., Novak, W., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; pp. 100–114 ISBN 9783642162138.

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 Inventions.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. The Real-Life Planets And Moons That Resemble Worlds In “Star Wars” Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/real-star-wars-planets-according-nasa/ (accessed on 30 October 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 The School Dropout Problem; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1986;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Berkland, M. Strain Analysis of a Detachment Shear Zone. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, 2015.

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

Brantley, B. Beyond the Brutal Headlines on Race, Voices of Despair and Hope. New York Times 2016, C2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Inventions
ISSN (online)	2411-5134
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