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

Logothetis, N.K. 2010. Bold claims for optogenetics. Nature 468: E3-4; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Farmer, M.E. & Baran, P.S. 2015. Organic chemistry: A cure for catalyst poisoning. Nature 524: 164–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

Caldeira, K., Jain, A.K. & Hoffert, M.I. 2003. Climate sensitivity uncertainty and the need for energy without CO2 emission. Science 299: 2052–2054.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Myllykallio, H., Lipowski, G., Leduc, D., Filee, J., Forterre, P. & Liebl, U. 2002. An alternative flavin-dependent mechanism for thymidylate synthesis. Science 297: 105–107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wagner, D. & Balog, E. 2012. Advanced Technical Analysis of ETFs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Huang, S. 2016. Electromagnetic Ultrasonic Guided Waves, 1st ed. 2016 (S. Wang, W. Li, & Q. Wang, eds). Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Handke, V. & Jonuschat, H. 2013. Launching the Service: Reaching a Critical Mass by Establishing an Internet-Based Service. In: Flexible Ridesharing: New Opportunities and Service Concepts for Sustainable Mobility (H. Jonuschat, ed), pp. 59–88. 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

Evans, K. 2017. Anxiety Makes It Harder To Read People’s Emotions.

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. 1975. College Work-Study Program at the Bay College of Maryland.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chitrampalam, P. 2009. Biological control of lettuce drop caused by Sclerotinia spp. using Coniothyrium minitans and elucidation of biochemical interactions during mycoparasitism. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Feeney, K. 2006. Chocolate And a Touch Of Chic.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Logothetis 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Logothetis 2010, Farmer & Baran 2015).

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

Two authors: (Farmer & Baran 2015)
Three or more authors: (Myllykallio et al. 2002)

About the journal

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