How to format your references using the Infomin citation style

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

Peng, X. 2011. “China’s demographic history and future challenges”. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6042): 581–587, ISSN: 1095-9203.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hachet, O. & Ephrussi, A. 2004. “Splicing of oskar RNA in the nucleus is coupled to its cytoplasmic localization”. Nature, 428(6986): 959–963, ISSN: 1476-4687.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gaucher, E. A.; Govindarajan, S. & Ganesh, O. K. 2008. “Palaeotemperature trend for Precambrian life inferred from resurrected proteins”. Nature, 451(7179): 704–707, ISSN: 1476-4687.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lam, Y. A.; Lawson, T. G.; Velayutham, M.; Zweier, J. L. & Pickart, C. M. 2002. “A proteasomal ATPase subunit recognizes the polyubiquitin degradation signal”. Nature, 416(6882): 763–767, ISSN: 0028-0836.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fryirs, K. A. & Brierley, G. J. 2012. Geomorphic Analysis of River Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, ISBN: 9781118305454.

An edited book

Cordeiro, J.; Hammoudi, S. & Sinderen, M. van (eds.). 2013. Software and Data Technologies: 7th International Conference, ICSOFT 2012, Rome, Italy, July 24-27, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. (ser. Communications in Computer and Information Science), vol. 411, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, XII, 219 p. 85 illus p., ISBN: 9783642454035.

A chapter in an edited book

Johnson, C. F. A. & Varma, J. 2015. “Parameters and Variables”. In: Varma, J. (ed.), Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell, Berkeley, CA: Apress, pp. 43–57, ISBN: 9781484201220.

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 Infomin.

Blog post

Davis, J. 2016. Bizarre Horned Ant Preserved In 99-Million-Year-Old Amber. IFLScience, IFLScience, Available: <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bizarre-horned-ant-preserved-in-ninety-nine-million-year-old-amber/>, [Consulted: October 30, 2018].

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 1978. How Good Are School Lunches? no. CED-78-22, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lima, A. A. 2009. Racial and cultural identity formation of low-income Brazilian youth of African descent through their experiences and perceptions in formal and informal schools. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

St. JOHN KELLY, E. 1998. “Navy Yard, Recommissioned”. New York Times, 26 July, p. 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Peng, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Hachet & Ephrussi, 2004; Peng, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hachet & Ephrussi, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lam et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Infomin
ISSN (online)	1992-4194
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