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

Strogatz, S.H., 2001. Exploring complex networks. Nature 410, 268–276.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lavier, L.L., Manatschal, G., 2006. A mechanism to thin the continental lithosphere at magma-poor margins. Nature 440, 324–328.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, J., Wang, B., Qiu, H., 2014. Coalescence and breakup of oppositely charged droplets. Sci. Rep. 4, 7123.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ziu, E., Hadden, C., Li, Y., Lowery, C.L., 3rd, Singh, P., Ucer, S.S., Mercado, C.P., Gu, H.H., Kilic, F., 2014. Effect of serotonin on platelet function in cocaine exposed blood. Sci. Rep. 4, 5945.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bolstad, W.M., Curran, J.M., 2016. Introduction to Bayesian Statistics, Third Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Liu, Z.L. (Ed.), 2012. Microbial Stress Tolerance for Biofuels: Systems Biology, Microbiology Monographs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Croese, M., Westerman, W., 2015. OPEC’s Influence on European Oil Stock Returns, in: Dorsman, A., Westerman, W., Simpson, J.L. (Eds.), Energy Technology and Valuation Issues. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 57–80.

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

Davis, J., 2017. Science May Have Solved Why Taking Deep Breaths Calms You Down [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/science-may-have-solved-why-taking-deep-breaths-calms-you-down/ (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, 1988. R&D Funding: The Department of Education in Perspective (No. PEMD-88-18FS). 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

Rholdon, C.M., 2012. Analyzing Leadership Practices of Enrollment Management at Fletcher Technical Community College (Doctoral dissertation). 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

Crow, K., 2003. Disaster? You Call This a Disaster? New Yorkers Rank Last in Plans. New York Times 145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Strogatz, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Lavier and Manatschal, 2006; Strogatz, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Lavier and Manatschal, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Ziu et al., 2014)

About the journal

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