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

McCormick S. Plant science. Reproductive dialog. Science 2007; 317:606–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Belgrano A, Fowler CW. Evolution. How fisheries affect evolution. Science 2013; 342:1176–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Strauss SH, Costanza A, Séguin A. BIOTECHNOLOGY. Genetically engineered trees: Paralysis from good intentions. Science 2015; 349:794–5.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Cheng X-Y, Tian X-L, Wang Y-S, Lin R-M, Mao Z-C, Chen N, Xie B-Y. Metagenomic analysis of the pinewood nematode microbiome reveals a symbiotic relationship critical for xenobiotics degradation. Sci Rep 2013; 3:1869.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anisman H. Stress and Your Health. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Almeida RMSF. School Buildings Rehabilitation: Indoor Environmental Quality and Enclosure Optimization. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Gegg BC, Suh CS, Luo ACJ. Cutting Dynamics Mechanism. In: Suh CS, Luo ACJ, editors. Machine Tool Vibrations and Cutting Dynamics. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. page 101–21.

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. Men Walk On Ice As Clear As Glass. IFLScience2014;

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: Information Collection and Management at the Federal Communications Commission. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sousa KL. Soul Seeking: A Crossing. 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

Kelly S. Children’s Books. New York Times1995; :723.

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

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