How to format your references using the Investigational New Drugs citation style

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

Ashcroft FM (2006) From molecule to malady. Nature 440:440–447

A journal article with 2 authors

Mathieu RD, Geller AM (2009) A binary star fraction of 76 per cent and unusual orbit parameters for the blue stragglers of NGC 188. Nature 462:1032–1035

A journal article with 3 authors

Rai VK, Jackson TL, Thiemens MH (2005) Photochemical mass-independent sulfur isotopes in achondritic meteorites. Science 309:1062–1065

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Schulteis G, Ahmed SH, Morse AC, et al (2000) Conditioning and opiate withdrawal. Nature 405:1013–1014

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bottomley GE (2011) Channel Equalization for Wireless Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lemon N, Garvis S (2014) Being “In and Out”: Providing Voice to Early Career Women in Academia. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Voort M van de, Willis H, Ortiz D, Martonosi S (2007) Applying Risk Assessment To Secure The Containerized Supply Chain. In: Linkov I, Wenning RJ, Kiker GA (eds) Managing Critical Infrastructure Risks: Decision Tools and Applications for Port Security. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 79–95

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 Investigational New Drugs.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Space Whisky To Return To Earth. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/space-whisky-return-earth/. 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 (2007) Transportation Accessibility: Lack of Data and Limited Enforcement Options Limit Federal Oversight. 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

Nikolova S (2010) Health insurance transitions of SCHIP-eligible children in response to higher public premiums. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

MacFARQUHAR N (2015) Giant Statues Aplenty, But This One Comes With a Fierce Debate. New York Times A4

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	Investigational New Drugs
Abbreviation	Invest. New Drugs
ISSN (print)	0167-6997
ISSN (online)	1573-0646
Scope	Oncology Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology