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]

Glassmeier K-H. Planetary science. Magnetic twisters on Mercury. Science 2009;324:597–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sankar P, Cho MK. Genetics. Toward a new vocabulary of human genetic variation. Science 2002;298:1337–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zhao J, Murray S, Lipuma JJ. Modeling the impact of antibiotic exposure on human microbiota. Sci Rep 2014;4:4345.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ruepp A, Graml W, Santos-Martinez ML, Koretke KK, Volker C, Mewes HW, et al. The genome sequence of the thermoacidophilic scavenger Thermoplasma acidophilum. Nature 2000;407:508–13.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Warren A. Dunes. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

De Gloria A, editor. Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society: APPLEPIES 2014. vol. 351. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Leo A, Handjaras G, Marino H, Bianchi M, Pietrini P, Ricciardi E. The Motor Control of Hand Movements in the Human Brain: Toward the Definition of a Cortical Representation of Postural Synergies. In: Bianchi M, Moscatelli A, editors. Human and Robot Hands: Sensorimotor Synergies to Bridge the Gap Between Neuroscience and Robotics, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 41–60.

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]

Andrews R. Researcher Uses CRISPR To Edit DNA Of Healthy Human Embryos In Controversial World First. 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. University Research: Controlling Inappropriate Access to Federally Funded Research Results. 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]

Orbinati AG. Spirituality and learning: An exploration into the understanding of spirituality in adult education. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 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

[1]

Kelly J. Figuring Out Who Really Had the Last Word in the Bush White House. New York Times 2013:C4.

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

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