How to format your references using the International Information and Library Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Information and Library Review. 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	Download the output style file
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

Weil, A. (2014). Mammalian evolution: A beast of the southern wild. Nature, 515(7528), 495–496.

A journal article with 2 authors

McMichael, A. J., & Rowland-Jones, S. L. (2001). Cellular immune responses to HIV. Nature, 410(6831), 980–987.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alford, R. A., Dixon, P. M., & Pechmann, J. H. (2001). Ecology. Global amphibian population declines. Nature, 412(6846), 499–500.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

St Maurice, M., Reinhardt, L., Surinya, K. H., Attwood, P. V., Wallace, J. C., Cleland, W. W., & Rayment, I. (2007). Domain architecture of pyruvate carboxylase, a biotin-dependent multifunctional enzyme. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5841), 1076–1079.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Halpert, B. (2011). Auditing Cloud Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Visakh, P. M., & Arao, Y. (Eds.). (2015). Flame Retardants: Polymer Blends, Composites and Nanocomposites. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Huchet, J.-F. (2014). From Dirigisme to Realism: Chinese Industrial Policy in the Era of Globalisation. In X. Richet, V. Delteil, & P. Dieuaide (Eds.), Strategies of Multinational Corporations and Social Regulations: European and Asian Perspectives (pp. 57–76). Springer.

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 Information and Library Review.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015, October 30). An Enormous Crack Has Suddenly Appeared In The Mountain Range Near Yellowstone. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/enormous-crack-suddenly-appears-mountain-range-near-yellowstone/

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. (1992). Computer Reservation Systems (RCED-92-225R). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Finley, S. (2014). How online communication and social media networking are used in alcohol use treatment [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine University.

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

Marx, L. (2014, June 22). Making Headlines With Their Vows. New York Times, ST13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weil, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (McMichael & Rowland-Jones, 2001; Weil, 2014).

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

Two authors: (McMichael & Rowland-Jones, 2001)
Three or more authors: (St Maurice et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Information and Library Review
ISSN (print)	1057-2317
Scope	Library and Information Sciences