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

Nutt, D., 2014. Help luck along to find psychiatric medicines. Nature 515, 165.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goldenfeld, N., Woese, C., 2007. Biology’s next revolution. Nature 445, 369.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, B.M., Finn, K.J., Li, J.J., 2010. Loss of DNA replication control is a potent inducer of gene amplification. Science 329, 943–946.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Svenningsson, P., Chergui, K., Rachleff, I., Flajolet, M., Zhang, X., El Yacoubi, M., Vaugeois, J.-M., Nomikos, G.G., Greengard, P., 2006. Alterations in 5-HT1B receptor function by p11 in depression-like states. Science 311, 77–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoschette, J.A., 2010. The Engineer’s Career Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Yu, X., 2010. Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms, Decision Engineering. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Mchugh, T., Connor, J., 2006. SELECTION OF EFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR MANAGEMENT OF CONTAMINATED LANDS, in: Simeonov, L., Chirila, E. (Eds.), Chemicals as Intentional and Accidental Global Environmental Threats, NATO Security through Science Series. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 45–56.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Police Wanted To Track A Mountain Lion But Found This Madness Instead [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, 1989. FAA’s Voice Switching and Control System (No. T-IMTEC-89-6). 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

Griffith, A., 2017. The Curious Case of Implementation: Enactment of the California Community College Student Equity Initiative (Doctoral dissertation). 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

Walsh, M.W., 2012. Settlement Money Patched Nassau County Budget Gaps. New York Times B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nutt, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Goldenfeld and Woese, 2007; Nutt, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Goldenfeld and Woese, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Svenningsson et al., 2006)

About the journal

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