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

Mahadevan, M. S. 2010. “Genetics. Exposing a DUX tale”. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5999): 1607–1608, ISSN: 1095-9203.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson, L. D. S. & Jameson, S. C. 2009. “Immunology. A chronic need for IL-21”. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5934): 1525–1526, ISSN: 1095-9203.

A journal article with 3 authors

Serabyn, E.; Mawet, D. & Burruss, R. 2010. “An image of an exoplanet separated by two diffraction beamwidths from a star”. Nature, 464(7291): 1018–1020, ISSN: 1476-4687.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zeng, Y.; Xie, X.; Duan, J.; Zhou, T.; Zhang, Y.; Yang, M. & Xu, F. 2014. “Perturbation of mitiglinide metabolism by chronic unpredicted mild stress in rats”. Scientific reports, 4: 3794, ISSN: 2045-2322.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pérez Fontán, F. & Mariño Espiñeira, P. 2008. Modeling the Wireless Propagation Channel. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, ISBN: 9780470751749.

An edited book

Gaetan, C. 2008. Modélisation et statistique spatiales. Guyon, X. (ed.), (ser. Mathématiques & Applications), vol. 63, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, XVIII, 310 p. 70 ill p., ISBN: 9783540792253.

A chapter in an edited book

Iosifidis, P. & Wheeler, M. 2016. “Modern Political Communication and Web 2.0 in Representative Democracies: The United States and the British Experience”. In: Wheeler, M. (ed.), Public Spheres and Mediated Social Networks in the Western Context and Beyond, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 95–121, ISBN: 9781137410290.

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

Andrews, R. 2015. Oslo To Combat Climate Change By Going Traffic-Free By 2019. IFLScience, IFLScience, Available: <https://www.iflscience.com/environment/oslo-combat-climate-change-going-traffic-free-2019/>, [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 1972. Expenditures by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Relocation of Offices and Related Alterations to Buildings in Michoud, Lousiana. no. B-177038, 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

Cornelius, D. A. 2014. The value of Scrum to organizations: A case study. Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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. 2010. “A Footnote Explains a Dispute Over Treasury’s Bailout Figures”. New York Times, 17 November, p. B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mahadevan, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Johnson & Jameson, 2009; Mahadevan, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Johnson & Jameson, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zeng et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Infomin
ISSN (online)	1992-4194
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