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

Kolodner, R. D. (2000). Guarding against mutation. Nature, 407(6805), 687, 689.

A journal article with 2 authors

Butler, S., & Harrowell, P. (2002). Factors determining crystal--liquid coexistence under shear. Nature, 415(6875), 1008–1011.

A journal article with 3 authors

Van Roy, P., Daley, A. C., & Briggs, D. E. G. (2015). Anomalocaridid trunk limb homology revealed by a giant filter-feeder with paired flaps. Nature, 522(7554), 77–80.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mimura, S., Seki, T., Tanaka, S., & Diffley, J. F. X. (2004). Phosphorylation-dependent binding of mitotic cyclins to Cdc6 contributes to DNA replication control. Nature, 431(7012), 1118–1123.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pan, C. T., Hwang, Y. M., Lin, L., & Chen, Y.-C. (2014). Design and Fabrication of Self-Powered Micro-Harvesters. John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Volpi, P. (Ed.). (2016). Arthroscopy and Sport Injuries: Applications in High-level Athletes (1st ed. 2016). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Carbó-Valverde, S., Cuadros-Solas, P. J., & Rodríguez-Fernández, F. (2016). The Reputable Underwriting Matching in Corporate Bond Issuances: Evidence for Non-financial Bonds. In S. Carbó Valverde, P. J. Cuadros Solas, & F. Rodríguez Fernández (Eds.), Bank Funding, Financial Instruments and Decision-Making in the Banking Industry (pp. 95–115). Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, September 25). Vaping As A ‘Gateway’ To Smoking Is Still More Hype Than Hazard. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1969). Enrollment and Attendance Aspects of Federal Student Financial Aid Programs (092719). 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

Addington, L. M. (2012). Students’ Preferences for Information Sources during the Undergraduate College Search Process: The Influence of Technology [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Vecsey, G. (2011, October 31). Once a Fill-In Keeper, Now a Winning Scorer. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kolodner, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Butler & Harrowell, 2002; Kolodner, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Butler & Harrowell, 2002)
Three authors: (Van Roy et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Mimura et al., 2004)

About the journal

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