How to format your references using the Ibis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ibis. 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	Download the output style file
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

Stewart, I., I. 2000. Mathematics. The Lorenz attractor exists. Nature 406: 948–949.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lukas, D. & Clutton-Brock, T.H. 2013. The evolution of social monogamy in mammals. Science 341: 526–530.

A journal article with 3 authors

Beerling, D.J., Osborne, C.P. & Chaloner, W.G. 2001. Evolution of leaf-form in land plants linked to atmospheric CO2 decline in the Late Palaeozoic era. Nature 410: 352–354.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Blanchon, P., Eisenhauer, A., Fietzke, J. & Liebetrau, V. 2009. Rapid sea-level rise and reef back-stepping at the close of the last interglacial highstand. Nature 458: 881–884.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ford, I. 2013. Statistical Physics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

2014. Nonlinear Approaches in Engineering Applications 2 (R. N. Jazar & L. Dai, eds). Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Lord, J.S. & Brooks, D.R. 2014. Bat Endoparasites: A UK Perspective. In: Bats (Chiroptera) as Vectors of Diseases and Parasites: Facts and Myths (S. Klimpel & H. Mehlhorn, eds), pp. 63–86. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Ibis.

Blog post

Davis, J. 2016. Illegal Trade In Great Apes Vastly Underestimated.

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. 1982. TVA’s Computer Needs Are Valid and ADP Management Is Improving.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCarthy, A.C. 2012. Tangle towns tie-breaker: A multidimensional knapsack study. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Murphy, M.J.O. 2017. Cinéma Spirité: Dinner and Drinks at the Movies.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stewart 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Stewart 2000, Lukas & Clutton-Brock 2013).

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

Two authors: (Lukas & Clutton-Brock 2013)
Three or more authors: (Blanchon et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ibis
ISSN (print)	1474-919X
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