How to format your references using the IRBM citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IRBM. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Bhutta ZA. Infectious disease: Polio eradication hinges on child health in Pakistan. Nature 2014;511:285–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rodell CB, Burdick JA. Materials science: Radicals promote magnetic gel assembly. Nature 2014;514:574–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Levayer R, Hauert B, Moreno E. Cell mixing induced by myc is required for competitive tissue invasion and destruction. Nature 2015;524:476–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Brunner D, Gerardot BD, Dalgarno PA, Wüst G, Karrai K, Stoltz NG, et al. A coherent single-hole spin in a semiconductor. Science 2009;325:70–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Edwards DW. Risk Management in Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Peters JF, Skowron A, editors. Transactions on Rough Sets III. vol. 3400. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Mark D, Varma J, LaMarche J, Horovitz A, Kim K. Preparing for Change: Migrations and Versioning. In: Varma J, LaMarche J, Horovitz A, Kim K, editors. More iPhone Development with Swift: Exploring the iOS SDK, Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2015, p. 127–35.

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 IRBM.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. There’s A “Blue Moon” This Friday - But What Does That Mean? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-out-fridays-blue-moon/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Standard Definitions: Missing and Needed Software Tools. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Culver MD. Assessing the influence of emotional intelligence on effective fire service leadership. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2015.

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]

Rojas R. An Undertaker’s Discovery Turns a Death Into a Murder Case. New York Times 2015:A28.

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	IRBM
Abbreviation	IRBM
ISSN (print)	1959-0318
Scope	Biophysics Biomedical Engineering