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]

Schoof C 2010 Ice-sheet acceleration driven by melt supply variability Nature 468 803–6

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Freeman M P and Watkins N W 2002 Auroral and space physics. The heavens in a pile of sand Science 298 979–80

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sato T K, Overduin M and Emr S D 2001 Location, location, location: membrane targeting directed by PX domains Science 294 1881–5

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Bousquet E, Dawber M, Stucki N, Lichtensteiger C, Hermet P, Gariglio S, Triscone J-M and Ghosez P 2008 Improper ferroelectricity in perovskite oxide artificial superlattices Nature 452 732–6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Fränzle S, Markert B and Wünschmann S 2012 Introduction to Environmental Engineering (Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)

An edited book

[1]

Bisognano J D, Beck R and Connell R 2012 Manual of Outpatient Cardiology (London: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Russell R and Tokatlian J G 2016 Argentina and the Rise of Brazil: Perceptions and Strategic Options Foreign Policy Responses to the Rise of Brazil: Balancing Power in Emerging States ed G L Gardini and M H T de Almeida (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK) pp 62–76

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]

Andrew E 2014 Einstein Vs Quantum Mechanics ... And Why He’d Be A Convert Today 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 2016 Aviation Security: Airport Perimeter and Access Control Security Would Benefit from Risk Assessment and Strategy Updates (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]

Bouyer J 2017 Temporary Leadership in Athletics: The Experiences of Interim NCAA Directors of Athletics Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Kenigsberg B 2017 Film Series New York Times C22

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