How to format your references using the IBRO Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IBRO Reports. 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

Smaglik, P., 2004. Back on track? Nature 430, 381.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forterre, Y., Dumais, J., 2011. Materials science. Generating helices in nature. Science 333, 1715–1716.

A journal article with 3 authors

Keith, D.W., Parson, E., Morgan, M.G., 2010. Research on global sun block needed now. Nature 463, 426–427.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Naskar, D., Nayak, S., Dey, T., Kundu, S.C., 2014. Non-mulberry silk fibroin influence osteogenesis and osteoblast-macrophage cross talk on titanium based surface. Sci. Rep. 4, 4745.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Griffin, P.M., Nembhard, H.B., DeFlitch, C.J., Bastian, N.D., Kang, H., Muñoz, D.A., 2015. Healthcare Systems Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kirsch, R. (Ed.), 2006. Groundwater Geophysics: A Tool for Hydrogeology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Canepa, M., 2013. A Surface Scientist’s View on Spectroscopic Ellipsometry, in: Bracco, G., Holst, B. (Eds.), Surface Science Techniques, Springer Series in Surface Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 99–135.

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 IBRO Reports.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. Could This New Clock Redefine The Length Of A Second? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1994. Default Rates at HBCUs (No. HEHS-94-97R). 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

Ghale, K., 2015. Modeling the Traffic Impacts During Evacuation of a Suburban University Campus: A Case Study (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Cumming-Bruce, N., Sengupta, S., 2017. In Greece, China Finds a New Ally Against Criticism of Its Human Rights Record. New York Times A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Forterre and Dumais, 2011; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Forterre and Dumais, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Naskar et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	IBRO Reports
Abbreviation	IBRO Rep.
ISSN (print)	2451-8301
Scope	General Neuroscience