How to format your references using the Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences. 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

Cannatella DC (2008) Comment on “Habitat split and the global decline of amphibians.” Science 320:874; author reply 874

A journal article with 2 authors

Pereira G, Schiebel E (2003) Separase regulates INCENP-Aurora B anaphase spindle function through Cdc14. Science 302:2120–2124

A journal article with 3 authors

Shelly DR, Beroza GC, Ide S (2007) Non-volcanic tremor and low-frequency earthquake swarms. Nature 446:305–307

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lee C-F, Leigh DA, Pritchard RG, et al (2009) Hybrid organic-inorganic rotaxanes and molecular shuttles. Nature 458:314–318

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crighton DA, Towl GJ (2009) Psychology in Prisons. BPS Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Washio T, Sakurai A, Nakajima K, et al (2006) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Joint JSAI 2005 Workshop Post-Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Montobbio F, Sterzi V (2011) Inventing Together: Exploring the Nature of International Knowledge Spillovers in Latin America. In: Pyka A, Derengowski Fonseca M da G (eds) Catching Up, Spillovers and Innovation Networks in a Schumpeterian Perspective. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 81–117

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 Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences.

Blog post

Luntz S (2017) Ebola Fighter And Hero Dies in Childbirth Due To Stigma Towards “Survivors.” In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ebola-fighter-and-hero-dies-in-childbirth-due-to-stigma-towards-survivors/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1980) Review of Selected Computer System Procurements. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhang Y (2017) A Grant Proposal for Mindfulness-Based Self-Care Training for Child Welfare Workers. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Barron J (2017) In the Age of Reality TV, a Best-Selling Author Calls In Real-Life Heroes. New York Times A18

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	Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences
Abbreviation	Interdiscip. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1913-2751
ISSN (online)	1867-1462
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Computer Science Applications Health Informatics