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

Powell K. Glittering prizes. Nature 2004; 428: 676–677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weiner HL, Selkoe DJ. Inflammation and therapeutic vaccination in CNS diseases. Nature 2002; 420: 879–884.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang J-T, Chen C, Kawazoe Y. New carbon allotropes with helical chains of complementary chirality connected by ethene-type π-conjugation. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 3077.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Martinon F, Pétrilli V, Mayor A, Tardivel A, Tschopp J. Gout-associated uric acid crystals activate the NALP3 inflammasome. Nature 2006; 440: 237–241.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deuff D, Cosquer M. User-Centered Agile Method. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

Chakraborti S, Dhalla NS (eds.). Regulation of Membrane Na+-K+ ATPase. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Divvala SK, Efros AA, Hebert M. How Important Are “Deformable Parts” in the Deformable Parts Model? In: Fusiello A, Murino V, Cucchiara R (eds). Computer Vision – ECCV 2012. Workshops and Demonstrations: Florence, Italy, October 7-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part III. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012, pp 31–40.

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

Hale T. Hundreds Of Laboratory-Riased Chimpanzees Are About To Experience Freedom For The First Time. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/over-200-chimpanzees-released-animal-testing-laboratory/ (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. Maritime Administration: Proceeds from the Sale of Obsolete Vessels Were Accounted for, Allocated, and Disbursed Consistent with Applicable Law. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Huynhle M. High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity Increases Resilience against Gram-Negative Bacterial Infection in Drosophila Larvae. 2017.

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

(nyt) SK. CHURCH DELEGATION IN RUSSIA. New York Times. 2003; : A14.

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

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