How to format your references using the Infrastructures citation style

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

Kerr, R.A. CLIMATOLOGY: Does a Climate Clock Get a Noisy Boost? Science 2000, 290, 697–698.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore, S.L.; Wilson, K. Parasites as a Viability Cost of Sexual Selection in Natural Populations of Mammals. Science 2002, 297, 2015–2018.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ma, J.-B.; Ye, K.; Patel, D.J. Structural Basis for Overhang-Specific Small Interfering RNA Recognition by the PAZ Domain. Nature 2004, 429, 318–322.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, Y.; Wang, L.; Xue, Y.; Jiang, L.; Zheng, Y. Bioinspired Tilt-Angle Fabricated Structure Gradient Fibers: Micro-Drops Fast Transport in a Long-Distance. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2927.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yamaguchi, R.; Fujita, K.-I. Ligand Platforms in Homogenous Catalytic Reactions with Metals; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2014; ISBN 9781118943106.

An edited book

Pareto Optimality, Game Theory And Equilibria; Chinchuluun, A., Pardalos, P.M., Migdalas, A., Pitsoulis, L., Eds.; Springer Optimization and Its Applications; Springer: New York, NY, 2008; Vol. 17; ISBN 9780387772462.

A chapter in an edited book

Bougares, F.; Rouvier, M.; Camelin, N.; Deléglise, P.; Estève, Y. An Investigation of Single-Pass ASR System Combination for Spoken Language Understanding. In Statistical Language and Speech Processing: First International Conference, SLSP 2013, Tarragona, Spain, July 29-31, 2013. Proceedings; Dediu, A.-H., Martín-Vide, C., Mitkov, R., Truthe, B., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; pp. 62–70 ISBN 9783642395925.

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 Infrastructures.

Blog post

Luntz, S. Lockheed Martin Claim They Will Have Nuclear Fusion Reactors That Fit On A Truck Within A Decade Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/fusion-power-nearly-here/ (accessed on 30 October 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 NOAA Aircraft: Aging Fleet and Future Challenges Underscore the Need for a Capital Asset Plan; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2014;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Steiner, C.P. Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego: La Jolla, CA, 2015.

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

Kovaleski, S.F. All the Presidents’ Memorabilia. New York Times 2015, C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Infrastructures
Abbreviation	Infrastructures
ISSN (online)	2412-3811
Scope