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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Kiessling, W. 2005. Long-term relationships between ecological stability and biodiversity in Phanerozoic reefs. Nature 433: 410–413.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thorsteinsdóttir, H. & Sáenz, T.W. 2012. History of science. Tackling meningitis in Africa. Science 338: 1546–1547.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stairs, I.H., Lyne, A.G. & Shemar, S.L. 2000. Evidence for free precession in a pulsar. Nature 406: 484–486.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rubio-Martinez, M., Batten, M.P., Polyzos, A., Carey, K.-C., Mardel, J.I., Lim, K.-S. & Hill, M.R. 2014. Versatile, high quality and scalable continuous flow production of metal-organic frameworks. Sci. Rep. 4: 5443.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gable, J. & Herrmann, T. 2016. Counselling Skills for Dietitians. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

2008. Encyclopedia of Diagnostic Imaging (A. L. Baert, ed). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Conejo, A.J., Baringo, L., Kazempour, S.J. & Siddiqui, A.S. 2016. Generation and Transmission Expansion Planning. In: Investment in Electricity Generation and Transmission: Decision Making under Uncertainty (L. Baringo Morales, S. J. Kazempour, & A. S. Siddiqui, eds), pp. 115–167. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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

Andrew, E. 2014. Human Genome Competed With Itself in Evolutionary Arms Race.

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. 1993. Air Traffic Control: Advanced Automation System Problems Need To Be Addressed.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grijalva, J.A. 2010. Exploring cultural finance: A phenomenological approach to comparative cultural perceptions of money in Mexico. Northcentral University, Scottsdale, 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

Gustines, G.G. 2012. Kick Up Those Heels.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kiessling 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Kiessling 2005, Thorsteinsdóttir & Sáenz 2012).

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

Two authors: (Thorsteinsdóttir & Sáenz 2012)
Three or more authors: (Rubio-Martinez et al. 2014)

About the journal

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