How to format your references using the European Union - Interinstitutional Style Guide (author-date) citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Union - Interinstitutional Style Guide (author-date). 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

Norreys, P.A., ‘Physics. Complexity in Fusion Plasmas’, Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 319, No. 5867, February 29, 2008, pp. 1193–1194.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, L., and Y. Wang, ‘What Drives the Aerosol Distribution in Guangdong--the Most Developed Province in Southern China?’, Scientific Reports, Vol. 4, August 6, 2014, p. 5972.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ingle, N.J.C., M.R. Beasley, and T.H. Geballe, ‘Superconductivity in a Spin-Ladder Cuprate’, Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 295, No. 5562, March 15, 2002, p. 1967.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hu, D., L. Hou, L. Zhang, and X. Xu, ‘A Pre-Archaeopteryx Troodontid Theropod from China with Long Feathers on the Metatarsus’, Nature, Vol. 461, No. 7264, October 1, 2009, pp. 640–643.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sundar, V., Ocean Wave Mechanics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh, and Shaz Qadeer, eds., Computer Aided Verification: 23rd International Conference, CAV 2011, Snowbird, UT, USA, July 14-20, 2011. Proceedings, Vol. 6806, Vol. 6806, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Dobreva, M., E. McCulloch, D. Birrell, Y. Ünal, and P. Feliciati, ‘Digital Natives and Specialised Digital Libraries: A Study of Europeana Users’, in S. Kurbanoğlu, U. Al, P. Lepon Erdoğan, Y. Tonta, and N. Uçak (eds.), Technological Convergence and Social Networks in Information Management: Second International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World, IMCW 2010, Ankara, Turkey, September 22-24, 2010. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010, pp. 45–60.

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 European Union - Interinstitutional Style Guide (author-date).

Blog post

Hale, T., ‘Bigger Wine Glasses Makes People Drink Significantly More’, IFLScience, IFLScience, June 7, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/bigger-wine-glasses-makes-people-drink-significantly-more/.

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, Telecommunications Network: NASA Could Better Manage Its Planned Consolidation, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, April 9, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Survis, F.D., ‘Residential Lawn Water Use and Lawn Irrigation Practices: Wellington, Florida’, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2010.

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

Marx, L., ‘Chelsea Tyler and Jon Foster: The Cradle Also Rocks’, New York Times, June 21, 2015.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Norreys, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Norreys, 2008; Li and Wang, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Li and Wang, 2014)
Three authors: (Ingle, Beasley, and Geballe, 2002)
4 or more authors: (Hu et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Union - Interinstitutional Style Guide (author-date)
ISSN (print)	1831-5380
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