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]

O’Reilly RC. Biologically based computational models of high-level cognition. Science 2006;314:91–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Keesing F, Ostfeld RS. Ecology. Is biodiversity good for your health? Science 2015;349:235–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lam E, Kato N, Lawton M. Programmed cell death, mitochondria and the plant hypersensitive response. Nature 2001;411:848–53.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lei Z, Liu X, Wu Y, Wang H, Jiang S, Wang S, et al. Enhanced strength and ductility in a high-entropy alloy via ordered oxygen complexes. Nature 2018;563:546–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Thyagarajan KS. Still Image and Video Compression with MATLAB. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Oswald Spring Ú, Brauch HG, Serrano Oswald SE, Bennett J, editors. Regional Ecological Challenges for Peace in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia Pacific. vol. 5. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jøsang A, Ødegaard M, Oftedal E. Cybersecurity Through Secure Software Development. In: Bishop M, Miloslavskaya N, Theocharidou M, editors. Information Security Education Across the Curriculum: 9th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference, WISE 9, Hamburg, Germany, May 26-28, 2015, Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 53–63.

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. Astronomers Map Dark Matter. IFLScience 2015.

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. Intermodal Transportation: A Variety of Factors Influence Airport-Intercity Passenger Rail Connectivity. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Daczo Z. Wage inequality and the gender wage gap: Are American women swimming upstream? Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2012.

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]

Hartocollis A, Taylor K. After an Introduction by de Blasio, a Brooklyn Hospital Hired His Wife. New York Times 2013:A24.

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