How to format your references using the Interbloc citation style

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

[1]

Devlin K. Portraits of science. Kurt Gödel--separating truth from proof in mathematics. Science 2002;298:1899–900.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Shao S, Hegde RS. Cell Biology. Local synthesis and disposal. Science 2014;346:701–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Li Y, Zhang X, Cao D. The role of shape complementarity in the protein-protein interactions. Sci Rep 2013;3:3271.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kadokura H, Tian H, Zander T, Bardwell JCA, Beckwith J. Snapshots of DsbA in action: detection of proteins in the process of oxidative folding. Science 2004;303:534–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bisswanger H. Enzyme Kinetics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Petrenko A, Simão A, Maldonado JC, editors. Testing Software and Systems: 22nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, ICTSS 2010, Natal, Brazil, November 8-10, 2010. Proceedings. vol. 6435. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Neueder R. Conductivity of Electrolytes. In: Kreysa G, Ota K-I, Savinell RF, editors. Encyclopedia of Applied Electrochemistry, New York, NY: Springer; 2014, p. 260–4.

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 Interbloc.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Virus Found To Make Plants Smell More Attractive To Foraging Bees. IFLScience 2016.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. National Airspace System: Observations on the Wide Area Augmentation System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Drake DA. Viscoelastic characterization of vapor-grown carbon nanofiber/vinyl ester nanocomposites using a response surface methodology. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, 2013.

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

[1]

Davey M, Walsh MW. Detroit Outlines Map to Solvency, Stressing Repair. New York Times 2014:A1.

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	Interbloc
ISSN (print)	0242-3960
Scope	Medical–Surgical