How to format your references using the Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering citation style

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

[1]

Zerhouni EA. Research funding. NIH in the post-doubling era: realities and strategies. Science. 2006;314(5802):1088–1090.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Saye RI, Sethian JA. Multiscale modeling of membrane rearrangement, drainage, and rupture in evolving foams. Science. 2013;340(6133):720–724.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Liu Q-S, Pu L, Poo M-M. Repeated cocaine exposure in vivo facilitates LTP induction in midbrain dopamine neurons. Nature. 2005;437(7061):1027–1031.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Marinov I, Gnanadesikan A, Toggweiler JR, et al. The Southern Ocean biogeochemical divide. Nature. 2006;441(7096):964–967.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

McBee J. Mastering Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 SP1. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Keyson DV, Maher ML, Streitz N, et al., editors. Ambient Intelligence: Second International Joint Conference on AmI 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 16-18, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Varoto PS, Mineto AT. Nonlinear Dynamic Behavior of Cantilever Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters: Numerical and Experimental Investigation. In: Wicks A, editor. Structural Health Monitoring, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 32nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 29–40.

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 Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. New Concorde Could Fly London To New York In One Hour [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-concorde-could-fly-london-new-york-55-minutes/.

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. Purchase and Preparation of Television Commercials by the Government. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977. Report No.: LCD-77-415. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Delmont LO. Wings pumping, wings stilled [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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]

Vecsey G. A Manager Who Exceeded His Own Expectations. New York Times. 2010 Mar 1;D2.

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 in Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	Inverse Probl. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1741-5977
ISSN (online)	1741-5985
Scope	Computer Science Applications General Engineering Applied Mathematics