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

Kerr, R.A. PALEOCLIMATE: An Appealing Snowball Earth That’s Still Hard to Swallow. Science 2000, 287, 1734–1736.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lum, L.; Clevers, H. Cell Biology. The Unusual Case of Porcupine. Science 2012, 337, 922–923.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pakull, M.W.; Soria, R.; Motch, C. A 300-Parsec-Long Jet-Inflated Bubble around a Powerful Microquasar in the Galaxy NGC 7793. Nature 2010, 466, 209–212.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Takáts, Z.; Wiseman, J.M.; Gologan, B.; Cooks, R.G. Mass Spectrometry Sampling under Ambient Conditions with Desorption Electrospray Ionization. Science 2004, 306, 471–473.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beneke, D.; Peters, M.; Glasser, D.; Hildebrandt, D. Understanding Distillation Using Column Profile Maps; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2012; ISBN 9781118477304.

An edited book

Rainieri, C. Operational Modal Analysis of Civil Engineering Structures: An Introduction and Guide for Applications; Fabbrocino, G., Ed.; Springer: New York, NY, 2014; ISBN 9781493907663.

A chapter in an edited book

Roussopoulos, N.; Utz, W. Design Semantics on Accessibility in Unstructured Data Environments. In Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling: Concepts, Methods and Tools; Karagiannis, D., Mayr, H.C., Mylopoulos, J., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 79–101 ISBN 9783319394169.

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

Andrew, E. New York State Has Banned Fracking Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-york-state-has-banned-fracking/ (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 Space Science: Causes and Impacts of Cutbacks to NASA’s Outer Solar System Exploration Missions; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1993;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Capelli, A.M. The (Un)Balanced Canon: Re-Visioning Feminist Conceptions of Madness and Transgression. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, 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

Vecsey, G. A Tiger and a Yankee Ponder Baseball’s Thrilling Finishes. New York Times 2011, B9.

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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