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

Kirchhoff, F. Neuroscience. Questionable Calcium. Science 2010, 327, 1212–1213.

A journal article with 2 authors

Felton, L.M.; Anthony, C. Biochemistry: Role of PQQ as a Mammalian Enzyme Cofactor? Nature 2005, 433, E10; discussion E11-2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vaupel, J.W.; Carey, J.R.; Christensen, K. Aging. It’s Never Too Late. Science 2003, 301, 1679–1681.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Baudrier-Raybaut, M.; Haïdar, R.; Kupecek, P.; Lemasson, P.; Rosencher, E. Random Quasi-Phase-Matching in Bulk Polycrystalline Isotropic Nonlinear Materials. Nature 2004, 432, 374–376.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kovalev, V.A. Solutions in Lidar Profiling of the Atmosphere; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2015; ISBN 9781118963296.

An edited book

Chirila, D.B. Introduction to Modern Fortran for the Earth System Sciences; Lohmann, G., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015; ISBN 9783642370083.

A chapter in an edited book

Zakko, L.; Finch, J.; Rothe, M.J.; Grant-Kels, J.M. Plummer-Vinson Syndrome: Dermatological Features. In Atlas of Dermatological Manifestations of Gastrointestinal Disease; Wu, G.Y., Selsky, N., Grant-Kels, J.M., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, 2013; pp. 9–10 ISBN 9781461461906.

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. Scientists Develop Telescopic Contact Lenses That Can Zoom 3X Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-develop-telescopic-contact-lenses-can-zoom-3x/ (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 Property Management: Lack of Accountability and Weak Internal Controls Leave NASA Equipment Vulnerable to Loss, Theft, and Misuse; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

De Ros, K.M. A Content Analysis of Television Ads: Does Current Practice Maximize Cognitive Processing? Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University: Bloomington, IN, 2008.

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

Harmon, A.; Fountain, H. For Scientists, a Political Test. New York Times 2017, D1.

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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