How to format your references using the Integrated Research Advances citation style

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

J.J. McDonnell. Creating a research brand. Science 2015, 349 (6249), 758.

A journal article with 2 authors

S.-J. Yoon, Y.-W. Lee. An aligned stream of low-metallicity clusters in the halo of the Milky Way. Science 2002, 297 (5581), 578–581.

A journal article with 3 authors

G. Beeli, M. Esslen, L. Jäncke. Synaesthesia: when coloured sounds taste sweet. Nature 2005, 434 (7029), 38.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

C.-L. Zhang, Y. Zou, W. He, F.H. Gage, R.M. Evans. A role for adult TLX-positive neural stem cells in learning and behaviour. Nature 2008, 451 (7181), 1004–1007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

T. Lahdenmäki, M. Leach. Relational Database Index Design and the Optimizers; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

Piriformospora indica: Sebacinales and Their Biotechnological Applications; Varma, A., Kost, G., Oelmüller, R., Eds.; Soil Biology; Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; Vol. 33.

A chapter in an edited book

D.F. Schnitman. Generative Inquiry in Therapy: From Problems to Creativity. In Meaning in Action: Constructions, Narratives, and Representations; Sugiman, T., Gergen, K. J., Wagner, W., Yamada, Y., Eds.; Springer Japan, Tokyo, 2008; pp 73–95.

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 Integrated Research Advances.

Blog post

J. O`Callaghan. Watch Live As NASA Inflates The First Expandable Room On The ISS https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-nasa-inflates-first-expandable-room-iss/ (accessed Oct 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. Improper Use of Federal Student Aid Funds for Lobbying Activities; HRD-82-108; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

C. Alvarez. Support groups for children of depressed parents: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

K. Feeney. A Bit Late, but Bounteous. New York Times. September 6, 2009, p NJ12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Integrated Research Advances
ISSN (print)	2456-334X
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