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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Sastry, S. 2001. “The relationship between fragility, configurational entropy and the potential energy landscape of glass-forming liquids”. Nature, 409(6817): 164–167, ISSN: 0028-0836.

A journal article with 2 authors

Le Borgne, M. & Shaw, A. S. 2013. “Immunology. Do T cells have a cilium?” Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6163): 1177–1178, ISSN: 1095-9203.

A journal article with 3 authors

Norris, D. J.; Efros, A. L. & Erwin, S. C. 2008. “Doped nanocrystals”. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5871): 1776–1779, ISSN: 1095-9203.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, H.-N.; Paeng, K.; Swallen, S. F. & Ediger, M. D. 2009. “Direct measurement of molecular mobility in actively deformed polymer glasses”. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5911): 231–234, 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

Kuzmeski, M. 2009. The Connectors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN: 9781118257890.

An edited book

Petersen, F. & Amstutz, R. (eds.). 2008. Natural Compounds as Drugs: Volume II. (ser. Progress in Drug Research), vol. 66, Basel: Birkhäuser, X, 428 p. 212 illus., 27 illus. in color p., ISBN: 9783764385941.

A chapter in an edited book

Broekel, T. & Hartog, M. 2013. “Determinants of Cross-Regional R&D Collaboration Networks: An Application of Exponential Random Graph Models”. In: Scherngell, T. (ed.), The Geography of Networks and R&D Collaborations, (ser. Advances in Spatial Science), Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 49–70, ISBN: 9783319026985.

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

Andrew, D. 2017. For $8,000, This Startup Will Fill Your Veins With The Blood Of Young People — But It Has No Idea If It’ll Have Any Benefits. IFLScience, IFLScience, Available: <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/for-8000-this-startup-will-fill-your-veins-with-the-blood-of-young-people-but-it-has-no-idea-if-itll-have-any-benefits/>, [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 1997. Aviation Safety: Efforts to Implement Flight Operational Quality Assurance Programs. no. RCED-98-10, 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

Ge, Z. 2009. Link performance analysis of disaster monitoring system. 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

Shpigel, B. 2016. “They’re First-Time Rivals. Their Mothers? Close as Longtime Friends”. New York Times, 27 August, p. D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sastry, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Sastry, 2001; Le Borgne & Shaw, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Le Borgne & Shaw, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Infomin
ISSN (online)	1992-4194
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