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]

Martin K. Vernon B. Mountcastle (1918-2015). Nature 2015;518:304.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kim BH, Kwon JW. Metal catalyst for low-temperature growth of controlled zinc oxide nanowires on arbitrary substrates. Sci Rep 2014;4:4379.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mathis D, Vence L, Benoist C. beta-Cell death during progression to diabetes. Nature 2001;414:792–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

LeMieux MC, Roberts M, Barman S, Jin YW, Kim JM, Bao Z. Self-sorted, aligned nanotube networks for thin-film transistors. Science 2008;321:101–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Stull C, Myers P, Scott DM. Tuned In. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Fleischmann A, Schmidt W, Stary C, editors. S-BPM in the Wild: Practical Value Creation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Reichstaller A, Eberhardinger B, Knapp A, Reif W, Gehlen M. Risk-Based Interoperability Testing Using Reinforcement Learning. In: Wotawa F, Nica M, Kushik N, editors. Testing Software and Systems: 28th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, ICTSS 2016, Graz, Austria, October 17-19, 2016, Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 52–69.

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]

Andrew E. Dinosaurs Could Have Survived The Asteroid, Study Finds. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dinosaurs-could-have-survived-asteroid-study-finds/ (accessed 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Highlights of a Forum: Ensuring Opportunities for Disadvantaged Children and Families. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Seymour CR. Natives Versus Exotics and Grasses Versus Forbs: A Long-Term Study of Vegetation in La Jolla Valley. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

St. John Kelly E. The Hatman Closeth. New York Times 1994:1310.

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