How to format your references using the Inverse Problems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Inverse Problems. 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

[1]

Pennisi E 2013 Geography. Advancing seasons in China Science 341 482–3

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kozlova T and Thummel C S 2003 Essential roles for ecdysone signaling during Drosophila mid-embryonic development Science 301 1911–4

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Papp B, Pál C and Hurst L D 2003 Dosage sensitivity and the evolution of gene families in yeast Nature 424 194–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Tacconi L J, Genzel R, Neri R, Cox P, Cooper M C, Shapiro K, Bolatto A, Bouché N, Bournaud F, Burkert A, Combes F, Comerford J, Davis M, Schreiber N M F, Garcia-Burillo S, Gracia-Carpio J, Lutz D, Naab T, Omont A, Shapley A, Sternberg A and Weiner B 2010 High molecular gas fractions in normal massive star-forming galaxies in the young Universe Nature 463 781–4

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hunt-Ahmed K 2013 Contemporary Islamic Finance (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Hallinger P 2007 A Problem-based Approach for Management Education: Preparing Managers for Action ed E M Bridges (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Casanova F 2011 Single-Sided Tomography Single-Sided NMR ed F Casanova, J Perlo and B Blümich (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 111–41

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 Inverse Problems.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J 2016 Watch Live As SpaceX Launches And Lands Yet Another Rocket IFLScience

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office 1991 Food Assistance: Processing of USDA Commodities Donated to the National School Lunch Program (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Moreau G A 2009 Touch and psychotherapy: A journey to the depths of the unconscious and back again Doctoral dissertation (Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute)

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

[1]

Shear M D and Yee V 2017 ‘Dreamers’ to Stay in U.S. for Now, but Their Long-Term Fate Is Unclear New York Times A17

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	Inverse Problems
Abbreviation	Inverse Probl.
ISSN (print)	0266-5611
ISSN (online)	1361-6420
Scope	Computer Science Applications Signal Processing Applied Mathematics Mathematical Physics Theoretical Computer Science