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

Benniston A (2013) Chemistry. Corralling positively charged molecular radicals. Science 339:404–405

A journal article with 2 authors

Pasteris JD, Wopenka B (2002) Laser-Raman spectroscopy: images of the Earth’s earliest fossils? Nature 420:476–7; discussion 477

A journal article with 3 authors

Hunt N, McGrath D, Stergiou N (2014) The influence of auditory-motor coupling on fractal dynamics in human gait. Sci Rep 4:5879

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hou S, Larsen RW, Boudko D, et al (2000) Myoglobin-like aerotaxis transducers in Archaea and Bacteria. Nature 403:540–544

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bottjer DJ (2016) Paleoecology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Bougé L, Prasanna VK (2005) High Performance Computing - HiPC 2004: 11th International Conference, Bangalore, India, December 19-22, 2004. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Takuma T, Techaumnat B (2010) Electric Field in High-Voltage Equipment. In: Techaumnat B (ed) Electric Fields in Composite Dielectrics and their Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 71–86

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) Using 3D Printers To Generate Villages Of Houses. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/using-3d-printers-generate-villages-houses/. 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 (1988) ADP Budget Analysis: SSA’s Information Systems Funding for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989. 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

Miranda PJ (2015) Tightly-coupled sulfur-cycling microbial mats of the White Point hydrothermal vent field, CA: An analog for deep-sea vents. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Peters JW, Grynbaum MM (2017) Returning to Role at Brash Website to Push Agenda. New York Times 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	Investigational New Drugs
Abbreviation	Invest. New Drugs
ISSN (print)	0167-6997
ISSN (online)	1573-0646
Scope	Oncology Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology

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