How to format your references using the IRBM News citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IRBM News. 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]

Friedlingstein P. A steep road to climate stabilization. Nature 2008;451:297–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fukami T, Morin PJ. Productivity-biodiversity relationships depend on the history of community assembly. Nature 2003;424:423–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pierce JL, Meyer GA, Jull AJT. Fire-induced erosion and millennial-scale climate change in northern ponderosa pine forests. Nature 2004;432:87–90.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wang Z, Smith KS, Murphy M, Piloto O, Somervaille TCP, Cleary ML. Glycogen synthase kinase 3 in MLL leukaemia maintenance and targeted therapy. Nature 2008;455:1205–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Brook CGD, Dattani MT. Handbook of Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Tambouris E, Panagiotopoulos P, Sæbø Ø, Wimmer MA, Pardo TA, Charalabidis Y, et al., editors. Electronic Participation: 8th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2016, Guimarães, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings. vol. 9821. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Isla A. Greening Costa Rica. In: Mitchell RC, Moore SA, editors. Planetary Praxis & Pedagogy: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Sustainability, Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2015, p. 73–93.

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 News.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 2016 Captures The Jaw-Dropping Awesomeness Of The Natural World. IFLScience 2016.

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. Highway Safety: Safety Belt Use Laws Save Lives and Reduce Costs to Society. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Creed CK. Identifying Controls on Patterns of Intermittent Streamflow in Three Streams of the American Southwest: A Geospatial Approach. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2017.

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]

Crow K. Cheers for the Resurrection Of a Much-Loved Grocery. New York Times 2001:146.

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 News
Abbreviation	IRBM News
ISSN (print)	1959-7568
Scope	Biophysics Biomedical Engineering