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

Wojchowski D. Eugene Goldwasser (1922-2010). Nature 2011; 470:40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hidalgo C, Donoso P. Cell signaling. Getting to the heart of mechanotransduction. Science 2011; 333:1388–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Okabe Y, Sano T, Nagata S. Regulation of the innate immune response by threonine-phosphatase of Eyes absent. Nature 2009; 460:520–4.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Eubank S, Guclu H, Kumar VSA, Marathe MV, Srinivasan A, Toroczkai Z, Wang N. Modelling disease outbreaks in realistic urban social networks. Nature 2004; 429:180–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rapaport H. The Literary Theory Toolkit. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Greenberg J, Waddell N, editors. “Brave New World”: Contexts and Legacies. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Bradshaw HB. Other Cannabimimetic Lipid Signaling Molecules. In: Köfalvi A, editor. Cannabinoids and the Brain. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008. page 47–58.

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

Andrew E. Scientists Develop Way Watch HIV Spreading Through The Body In Real Time. IFLScience2015;

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. Aviation Infrastructure: Feasibility of Using Alternate Means to Satisfy Requirements of Alaska National Airspace System Interfacility Communications System (ANICS) Phase II. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Choubey L. Quantitative Assessment of Fgfr1 Expression in Neurons and Glia of the Developing Mouse Brain. 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

Greenhouse L. IN REVERSAL OF COURSE, JUSTICES, 5-4, BACK BAN ON ABORTION METHOD. New York Times2007; :A1.

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