How to format your references using the International Journal of Population Data Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS). 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

de Lange T. How telomeres solve the end-protection problem. Science 2009 Nov.;326:948–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Makinoshima H, Glickman MS. Regulation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell envelope composition and virulence by intramembrane proteolysis. Nature 2005 Jul.;436:406–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bishop JR, Schuksz M, Esko JD. Heparan sulphate proteoglycans fine-tune mammalian physiology. Nature 2007 Apr.;446:1030–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cardinale BJ, Srivastava DS, Duffy JE, Wright JP, Downing AL, Sankaran M, et al. Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems. Nature 2006 Oct.;443:989–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Luther GW III. Inorganic Chemistry for Geochemistry and Environmental Sciences. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Tromeur-Dervout D, Brenner G, Emerson DR, Erhel J, editors. Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2008: Parallel Numerical Methods, Software Development and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Lines M. Local Bifurcation Theory Applied to OLG Models. In: Lines M, editor. Nonlinear Dynamical Systems in Economics. Vienna: Springer; 2005. p. 103–30.

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 Population Data Science.

Blog post

Andrew E. Secret Chambers Found In Tutankhamun’s Tomb [Internet]. IFLScience 2015 Sep. [cited 2018 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/evidence-concealed-chambers-found-behind-tutankhamuns-tomb/

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. Chemical Assessments: An Agencywide Strategy May Help EPA Address Unmet Needs for Integrated Risk Information System Assessments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Llamas AL. ALLTAP Solutions, LLC: A Business Plan. 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. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Cooperation, Of Sorts, From Georgia. New York Times 2002 Sep.;A4.

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 of Population Data Science
ISSN (online)	2399-4908
Scope