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

Hare, J. D. 2012. “Ecology. How insect herbivores drive the evolution of plants”. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6103): 50–51, ISSN: 1095-9203.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heilbron, J. L. & Bynum, W. F. 2001. “1901 and all that”. Nature, 409(6816): 13–16, ISSN: 0028-0836.

A journal article with 3 authors

James, A.; Pitchford, J. W. & Plank, M. J. 2013. “James et al. reply”. Nature, 500(7463): E2-3, ISSN: 1476-4687.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dürr, M.; Biedermann, A.; Hu, Z.; Höfer, U. & Heinz, T. F. 2002. “Probing high-barrier pathways of surface reactions by scanning tunneling microscopy”. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5574): 1838–1841, ISSN: 1095-9203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abulencia, J. P. & Theodore, L. 2015. Open-Ended Problems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN: 9781118946084.

An edited book

Pal, B. 2005. Robust Control in Power Systems. Chaudhuri, B. (ed.), (ser. Power Electronics and Power Systems), Boston, MA: Springer US, XXVI, 190 p p., ISBN: 9780387259499.

A chapter in an edited book

Bulian, G. & Francescutto, A. 2012. “Trimaran Vessels and Parametric Roll”. In: Fossen, T. I. & Nijmeijer, H. (eds.), Parametric Resonance in Dynamical Systems, New York, NY: Springer, pp. 63–89, ISBN: 9781461410423.

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

Hamilton, K. 2016. Will We Ever Be Able To Bring Cryogenically Frozen Corpses Back To Life? A Cryobiologist Explains. IFLScience, IFLScience, Available: <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/will-we-ever-be-able-to-bring-cryogenically-frozen-corpses-back-to-life-a-cryobiologist-explains/>, [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 1971. Review of Administration of Selected Aspects of the Student-Tutor Education Program by the National Endowment for the Humanities. no. B-158811, 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

Chanderbhan-Forde, S. 2010. Asian Indian mothers’ involvement in their children’s schooling: An analysis of social and cultural capital. Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Wasik, J. F. 2016. “The Next Hot Start-Up Benefit Could Be a 401(k)”. New York Times, 22 September, p. B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hare, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Heilbron & Bynum, 2001; Hare, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Heilbron & Bynum, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Dürr et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Infomin
ISSN (online)	1992-4194
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