How to format your references using the International Breastfeeding Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Breastfeeding Journal. 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. von Hippel FN. Energy. Plutonium and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. Science. 2001;293:2397–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. He F, Hubbell SP. Species-area relationships always overestimate extinction rates from habitat loss. Nature. 2011;473:368–71.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Stott L, Timmermann A, Thunell R. Southern Hemisphere and deep-sea warming led deglacial atmospheric CO2 rise and tropical warming. Science. 2007;318:435–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Posson DJ, Ge P, Miller C, Bezanilla F, Selvin PR. Small vertical movement of a K+ channel voltage sensor measured with luminescence energy transfer. Nature. 2005;436:848–51.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Jayaweera SK. Signal Processing for Cognitive Radios. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

1. DeLamater J, Ward A, editors. Handbook of Social Psychology. 2nd ed. 2013. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ivanov P, Voigt K. Schema, Ontology and Metamodel Matching - Different, But Indeed the Same? In: Bellatreche L, Mota Pinto F, editors. Model and Data Engineering: First International Conference, MEDI 2011, Óbidos, Portugal, September 28-30, 2011 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 18–30.

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 International Breastfeeding Journal.

Blog post

1. Carpineti C. Check Out This Mesmerizing Spanish Dancer Sea Slug. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Space Station: Cost to Operate After Assembly is Uncertain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Aug. Report No.: NSIAD-99-177.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Rodriguez JM. Navy Supply Corps officer’s perspective on effective leadership [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2008.

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. (nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Miners’ Hunger Strike. New York Times. 2004 May 21;A12.

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	International Breastfeeding Journal
Abbreviation	Int. Breastfeed. J.
ISSN (online)	1746-4358
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health