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

Sapienza, C. Molecular Biology. Do Watson and Crick Motor from X to Z? Science 2007, 315, 46–47.

A journal article with 2 authors

Louf, R.; Barthelemy, M. How Congestion Shapes Cities: From Mobility Patterns to Scaling. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5561.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alexandre, C.; Baena-Lopez, A.; Vincent, J.-P. Patterning and Growth Control by Membrane-Tethered Wingless. Nature 2014, 505, 180–185.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Plane, J.M.C.; Murray, B.J.; Chu, X.; Gardner, C.S. Removal of Meteoric Iron on Polar Mesospheric Clouds. Science 2004, 304, 426–428.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Willis, D.O. Business Basics for Dentists; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: West Sussex, UK, 2013; ISBN 9781118783368.

An edited book

Networked RFID Systems and Lightweight Cryptography: Raising Barriers to Product Counterfeiting; Cole, P.H., Ranasinghe, D.C., Eds.; First edition.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; ISBN 9783540716402.

A chapter in an edited book

Okitsu, K. Sonochemical Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles. In Theoretical and Experimental Sonochemistry Involving Inorganic Systems; Ashokkumar, M., Ed.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2011; pp. 131–150 ISBN 9789048138869.

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

Luntz, S. Ultracold Molecules Nest Like Russian Dolls Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/ultracold-molecules-nest-russian-dolls/ (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 Air Traffic Control System: Selected Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Operations, Modernization, and Structure; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2014;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Llamas, A.L. ALLTAP Solutions, LLC: A Business Plan. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Greenhouse, L. Court Weighs Right to Guns, And Its Limits. New York Times 2008, A1.

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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