How to format your references using the Interfaces citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Interfaces. 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

Smaglik P (2004) High road to Scotland. Nature 432(7013):128–129.

A journal article with 2 authors

de Wit M, Stankiewicz J (2006) Changes in surface water supply across Africa with predicted climate change. Science 311(5769):1917–1921.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martincorena I, Seshasayee ASN, Luscombe NM (2012) Evidence of non-random mutation rates suggests an evolutionary risk management strategy. Nature 485(7396):95–98.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Berset T, Hoier EF, Battu G, Canevascini S, Hajnal A (2001) Notch inhibition of RAS signaling through MAP kinase phosphatase LIP-1 during C. elegans vulval development. Science 291(5506):1055–1058.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertin E, Crespi N, Pujolle G (2013) Architecture and Governance for Communication Services (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Donelli G ed. (2016) Advances in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health: Volume 4 (Springer International Publishing, Cham).

A chapter in an edited book

Miller A (2012) Californium-252 as a Neutron Source for BNCT. Sauerwein W, Wittig A, Moss R, Nakagawa Y, eds. Neutron Capture Therapy: Principles and Applications. (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg), 69–74.

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 Interfaces.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2011) Potential HIV Vaccine Moves Into Next Testing Phase. IFLScience. Retrieved (October 30, 2018), https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/potential-hiv-vaccine-moves-into-next-testing-phase/.

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 (2006) NASA’s Deep Space Network: Current Management Structure Is Not Conducive to Effectively Matching Resources with Future Requirements (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

Anderson PM (2012) Persistent Genomic Consequences of Prenatal Nicotine Exposure Measured in Adolescent Rat Brain. Doctoral dissertation. (George Washington University, Washington, DC).

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

Murphy MJO (2016) 20 Years Ago: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Was Reborn on TV. New York Times (January 8).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2004, de Wit and Stankiewicz 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (de Wit and Stankiewicz 2006)
Three or more authors: (Berset et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Interfaces
Abbreviation	Interfaces (Providence)
ISSN (print)	0092-2102
ISSN (online)	1526-551X
Scope	Management of Technology and Innovation Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research