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

Hammond WC (2005) Geophysics. The ghost of an earthquake. Science 310:1440–1442

A journal article with 2 authors

Ryan AJ, Christensen PR (2012) Coils and polygonal crust in the Athabasca Valles region, Mars, as evidence for a volcanic history. Science 336:449–452

A journal article with 3 authors

Flachsova M, Sindelka R, Kubista M (2013) Single blastomere expression profiling of Xenopus laevis embryos of 8 to 32-cells reveals developmental asymmetry. Sci Rep 3:2278

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yin J-X, Zhang SS, Li H, et al (2018) Giant and anisotropic many-body spin-orbit tunability in a strongly correlated kagome magnet. Nature 562:91–95

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hitz B, Ewing JJ, Hecht J (2005) Introduction to Laser Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Moschitti A, Scandariato R (2012) Eternal Systems: First InternationalWorkshop, EternalS 2011, Budapest, Hungary, May 3, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Alexiou A, Asimakis K, Bouras C, et al (2011) Combining MBSFN and PTM Transmission Schemes for Resource Efficiency in LTE Networks. In: Masip-Bruin X, Verchere D, Tsaoussidis V, Yannuzzi M (eds) Wired/Wireless Internet Communications: 9th IFIP TC 6 International Conference, WWIC 2011, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain, June 15-17, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 56–67

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 (2016) Fear Of Death Underlies Most Of Our Phobias. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/fear-death-underlies-most-our-phobias/. 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 (2013) Education Research: Further Improvements Needed to Ensure Relevance and Assess Dissemination Efforts. 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

Reller TL (2010) Exploring differences in teacher attitudes and instructional strategies between traditional and block schedule high schools: A comparison of two small schools. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Mann M (2015) The Other Side of Boredom. New York Times SR6

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