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]

Balter M. EUROPEAN SCIENCE POLICY: France Rebels Against Gene-Patenting Law. Science 2000;288:2115a.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Godula K, Sames D. C-H bond functionalization in complex organic synthesis. Science 2006;312:67–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hansell DA, Kadko D, Bates NR. Degradation of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon in the western Arctic Ocean. Science 2004;304:858–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Cummins JM, Rago C, Kohli M, Kinzler KW, Lengauer C, Vogelstein B. Tumour suppression: disruption of HAUSP gene stabilizes p53. Nature 2004;428:1 p following 486.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Iwacz G, Jajszczyk A, Zajączkowski M. Multimedia Broadcasting and Multicasting in Mobile Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Eichler A. Empirical Research in Statistics Education. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Altwaijry N, El Bachir Menai M. A Swarm Random Walk Algorithm for Global Continuous Optimization. In: Pan J-S, Krömer P, Snášel V, editors. Genetic and Evolutionary Computing: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, ICGEC 2013, August 25 - 27, 2013 - Prague, Czech Republic, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 33–43.

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]

O`Callaghan J. We Could Soon Prove If Life Began Outside The Solar System Or Not. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/we-could-soon-prove-if-life-began-outside-solar-system-or-not/ (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. Aviation Safety: Users Differ in Views of Collision Avoidance System and Cite Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Yanez AM. Chicano and Black radical activism of the 1960s: A comparison between the Brown Berets and the Black Panther Party in California. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 2010.

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]

Sisario B. Taylor Swift’s Single Breaks Spotify Record. New York Times 2017:C3.

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