How to format your references using the International Journal for Ion Mobility Spectrometry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal for Ion Mobility Spectrometry. 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

Jayaraman KS (2003) Indian prime minister pledges to revamp science. Nature 421:101

A journal article with 2 authors

Rotenberg E, Yakir D (2010) Contribution of semi-arid forests to the climate system. Science 327:451–454

A journal article with 3 authors

Matsumoto M, Saito S, Ohmine I (2002) Molecular dynamics simulation of the ice nucleation and growth process leading to water freezing. Nature 416:409–413

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mortezaei N, Singh B, Bullitt E, et al (2013) P-fimbriae in the presence of anti-PapA antibodies: new insight of antibodies action against pathogens. Sci Rep 3:3393

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lundberg U, Cooper CL (2010) The Science of Occupational Health. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Dams D, Hannemann U, Steffen M (2010) Concurrency, Compositionality, and Correctness: Essays in Honor of Willem-Paul de Roever. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Skevik K-A, Goebel V, Plagemann T (2008) Design, Prototype, and Evaluation of a Network Monitoring Library. In: Rong C, Jaatun MG, Sandnes FE, et al (eds) Autonomic and Trusted Computing: 5th International Conference, ATC 2008, Oslo, Norway, June 23-25, 2008 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 21–35

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 Journal for Ion Mobility Spectrometry.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Squeaky Baby Sloths Are Completely Adorable. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/squeaky-baby-sloths-are-completely-adorable/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2010) Next Generation Air Transportation System: Challenges with Partner Agency and FAA Coordination Continue, and Efforts to Integrate Near-, Mid-, and Long-term Activities Are Ongoing. 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

Flores D (2014) The EastSide Café: A liberated learning zone. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Dominus S (2014) About That Night. New York Times MM21

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 Journal for Ion Mobility Spectrometry
Abbreviation	Int. J. Ion Mobil. Spectrom.
ISSN (print)	1435-6163
ISSN (online)	1865-4584
Scope	Spectroscopy