How to format your references using the Islets citation style

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

Richman DD. HIV chemotherapy. Nature 2001; 410:995–1001.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hering JG, Ingold KM. Water management. Water resources management: what should be integrated? Science 2012; 336:1234–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kitajima TS, Kawashima SA, Watanabe Y. The conserved kinetochore protein shugoshin protects centromeric cohesion during meiosis. Nature 2004; 427:510–7.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lu C, Hu N, Yang M, Xia S, Wang H, Wang J, Xia Z, Liu J-M. High magnetic field phase diagram in electron-doped manganites La(0.4)Ca(0.6)Mn(1-y)Cr(y)O3. Sci Rep 2014; 4:4902.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen K-H. Power Management Techniques for Integrated Circuit Design. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Coronado D, Acosta M, Cerbán M del M, López M del P, editors. Economic Impact of the Container Traffic at the Port of Algeciras Bay. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Kao EC-C, Soo V-W. Dialog Designs in Virtual Drama: Balancing Agency and Scripted Dialogs. In: Beer M, Brom C, Dignum F, Soo V-W, editors. Agents for Educational Games and Simulations: International Workshop, AEGS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2, 2011. Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. page 63–78.

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 Islets.

Blog post

Hale T. Theft Of DNA Samples Raises Questions On Ownership Of Genetic Information [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/theft-of-dna-samples-raises-questions-on-ownership-of-genetic-information/

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

Government Accountability Office. Telecommunications: Enhanced Data Collection and Analysis Could Inform FCC’s Efforts to Complete the Digital Transition of Low-Power Television Stations and Reallocate Spectrum. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hoang TT. Acoustic and Image Vehicle Classification System. 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

Walsh MW. Judge Rejects Overhaul of Illinois’s Beleaguered State Pension System. New York Times2014; :A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Islets
Abbreviation	Islets
ISSN (print)	1938-2014
ISSN (online)	1938-2022
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism