How to format your references using the International Journal of Impotence Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Impotence Research. 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

Kirschner MW. Obituary: Reinhart Heinrich (1946-2006). Nature 2006; 444: 700.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smetacek V, Cloern JE. Oceans. On phytoplankton trends. Science 2008; 319: 1346–1348.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alford RA, Bradfield KS, Richards SJ. Ecology: global warming and amphibian losses. Nature 2007; 447: E3-4; discussion E5-6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hirama M, Oishi T, Uehara H, Inoue M, Maruyama M, Oguri H et al. Total synthesis of ciguatoxin CTX3C. Science 2001; 294: 1904–1907.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jiang J, Zhang C. Fundamentals and Applications of Lithium-ion Batteries in Electric Drive Vehicles. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd: Singapore, 2015.

An edited book

Gu D-W. Robust Control Design with MATLAB®. 2nd ed. 2013. Springer: London, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Ball T. Formalizing Counterexample-Driven Refinement with Weakest Preconditions. In: Broy M, Grünbauer J, Harel D, Hoare T (eds). Engineering Theories of Software Intensive Systems: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Engineering Theories of Software Intensive Systems Marktoberdorf, Germany 3–15 August 2004. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2005, pp 121–139.

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 of Impotence Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. Alien-Like Lobster Found In Nova Scotia. IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/alien-lobster-found-nova-scotia/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Review of HEW Guidelines for Acquiring Automatic Data Processing Systems Under the Social Security Act. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Salonga-Moreno DR. Pressure ulcer prevention and management curriculum for home health agencies. 2010.

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

Walsh MW. Deal Is Said to Be Close in Detroit’s Bankruptcy. New York Times. 2014; : A26.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 of Impotence Research
Abbreviation	Int. J. Impot. Res.
ISSN (print)	0955-9930
ISSN (online)	1476-5489
Scope	Urology