How to format your references using the Journal of the Royal Society Interface citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 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

Chapais B. 2011 Anthropology. The deep social structure of humankind. Science 331, 1276–1277.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bishopp A, Bennett MJ. 2015 Plant biology: Seeing the wood and the trees. Nature 517, 558–559.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alanyali M, Moat HS, Preis T. 2013 Quantifying the relationship between financial news and the stock market. Sci. Rep. 3, 3578.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Florusse LJ, Peters CJ, Schoonman J, Hester KC, Koh CA, Dec SF, Marsh KN, Sloan ED. 2004 Stable low-pressure hydrogen clusters stored in a binary clathrate hydrate. Science 306, 469–471.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hollin CR. 2016 The Psychology of Interpersonal Violence. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Sun H, Yang C-Y, Lin C-W, Pan J-S, Snasel V, Abraham A, editors. 2015 Genetic and Evolutionary Computing: Proceeding of the Eighth International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, October 18-20, 2014, Nanchang, China. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Dobrescu R, Ichim L. 2008 Automatic Data Acquisition and Signal Processing in the Field of Virology. In Advances in Mass Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Food Industry: Third International Conference, MDA 2008 Leipzig, Germany, July 14, 2008 Proceedings (eds P Perner, O Salvetti), pp. 52–61. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014 Possible Preserved Brain Matter Discovered Within 8,000 Year Old Skull. IFLScience.

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. 1996 Scientific Research: Continued Vigilance Critical to Protecting Human Subjects.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gary JO. 2011 Women’s social networking: Steps that organize low-technology users with emergency needs. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Wagner J. 2016 A Rich Baseball History, Now on Display. New York Times, 22 September. , B12.

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	Journal of the Royal Society Interface
Abbreviation	J. R. Soc. Interface
ISSN (print)	1742-5689
ISSN (online)	1742-5662
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Biotechnology Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials