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

Strogatz SH. 2001 Exploring complex networks. Nature 410, 268–276.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berry A, Browne J. 2008 The other beetle-hunter. Nature 453, 1188–1190.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alboussière T, Deguen R, Melzani M. 2010 Melting-induced stratification above the Earth’s inner core due to convective translation. Nature 466, 744–747.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tsai M-Y, Wang S, Heidinger JM, Shumaker DK, Adam SA, Goldman RD, Zheng Y. 2006 A mitotic lamin B matrix induced by RanGTP required for spindle assembly. Science 311, 1887–1893.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stegmann JP. 2009 Strategic Value Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Micali G. 2013 Atlas of Male Genital Disorders: A Useful Aid for Clinical Diagnosis. Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kota R, Gibbins N, Jennings NR. 2009 Decentralised Structural Adaptation in Agent Organisations. In Organized Adaption in Multi-Agent Systems: First International Workshop, OAMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 13, 2008. Revised and Invited Papers (eds G Vouros, A Artikis, K Stathis, J Pitt), pp. 54–71. 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

Hale T. 2016 The “Dreams” Of Artificial Intelligence Are Getting Even More Lifelike. IFLScience. See https://www.iflscience.com/technology/dreams-artificial-intelligence-are-getting-even-more-lifelike/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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. 1995 Combined Fund Update.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wilson ML. 2017 The Power of Spoken Word: Oral History As Social Work Pedagogy. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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. 2017 Mets Fall to Braves, but Help Is Coming as Cespedes Is Set to Return. New York Times, 10 June. , D2.

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