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. Roberge A. Astronomy: Hurling comets around a planetary nursery. Nature. 2014;514:440–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Koo H-J, Velev OD. Regenerable photovoltaic devices with a hydrogel-embedded microvascular network. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2357.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Germain RN, Robey EA, Cahalan MD. A decade of imaging cellular motility and interaction dynamics in the immune system. Science. 2012;336:1676–81.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Shigetani Y, Sugahara F, Kawakami Y, Murakami Y, Hirano S, Kuratani S. Heterotopic shift of epithelial-mesenchymal interactions in vertebrate jaw evolution. Science. 2002;296:1316–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hanzo L, Liew TH, Yeap BL. Turbo Coding, Turbo Equalisation and Space-Time Coding. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Genz A. Computation of Multivariate Normal and t Probabilities. Bretz F, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Selgelid MJ. Disease Prevention and Control. In: H. Barrett D, W. Ortmann L, Dawson A, Saenz C, Reis A, Bolan G, editors. Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 95–136.

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. Andrew E. The Daily Show Tears Apart Vaccine Denialists [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/daily-show-tears-apart-vaccine-denialists/

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. Household Goods Transport. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Aug. Report No.: GGD-92-23R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hess JP. Exploring the Challenges of Training and Developing Millennials in the Business Environment [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 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. Walsh MW. With Suit, Hedge Funds Seek to Freeze the Assets of a Top Puerto Rico Bank. New York Times. 2016 Apr 5;B7.

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