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]

Zemlo T 2007 The evolution of life-sciences sales Nature 447 230

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Horvath P and Barrangou R 2010 CRISPR/Cas, the immune system of bacteria and archaea Science 327 167–70

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Weisbuch M, Pauker K and Ambady N 2009 The subtle transmission of race bias via televised nonverbal behavior Science 326 1711–4

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Percec V, Wilson D A, Leowanawat P, Wilson C J, Hughes A D, Kaucher M S, Hammer D A, Levine D H, Kim A J, Bates F S, Davis K P, Lodge T P, Klein M L, DeVane R H, Aqad E, Rosen B M, Argintaru A O, Sienkowska M J, Rissanen K, Nummelin S and Ropponen J 2010 Self-assembly of Janus dendrimers into uniform dendrimersomes and other complex architectures Science 328 1009–14

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Shover L 2010 Trading Options in Turbulent Markets (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Zhiltsov S S, Zonn I S and Kostianoy A G 2016 Oil and Gas Pipelines in the Black-Caspian Seas Region vol 51 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Altmann S 2014 All Done by Mirrors: Symmetries, Quaternions, Spinors, and Clifford Algebras The Art of Science: From Perspective Drawing to Quantum Randomness ed R Lupacchini and A Angelini (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 101–30

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 Inverse Problems.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S 2015 Bacteria Infection Reduces Agression In Fruit Flies 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 Mass Transit Grants: Improved Management Could Reduce Misuse of Funds in UMTA’s Region IX (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]

Shirley A 2012 Connecting foster children with their siblings within a summer camp setting: A grant proposal 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]

Kelly D 1995 The Pink Sheep New York Times 729

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