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

Forde A. 2006 Careers in systems biology. A meeting of minds, expertise, and imagination. Science 311, 1306–1307.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jacob Z, Shalaev VM. 2011 Physics. Plasmonics goes quantum. Science 334, 463–464.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coumou D, Driesner T, Heinrich CA. 2008 The structure and dynamics of mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems. Science 321, 1825–1828.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yin H et al. 2007 Computational design of peptides that target transmembrane helices. Science 315, 1817–1822.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Janovy J, Esch GW. 2016 A Century of Parasitology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Peer S, Gruber H, editors. 2013 Atlas of Peripheral Nerve Ultrasound: With Anatomic and MRI Correlation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bahri M, Hitzer EMS, Adji S. 2010 Two-Dimensional Clifford Windowed Fourier Transform. In Geometric Algebra Computing: in Engineering and Computer Science (eds E Bayro-Corrochano, G Scheuermann), pp. 93–106. London: 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

Hamilton K. 2014 A Man Took This Photograph Of Birds, And Turned Their Positions Into Musical Notes. 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. 2003 Aviation Safety: FAA Needs to Update Curriculum and Certification Requirements for Aviation Mechanics.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nolan C. 2017 Safety Mindfulness: The Incorporation of Low-Dose Mindfulness as a Leading Edge Safety Intervention. 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

Rothenberg B. 2017 Federer, Continuing His Rebound, Soars Into Semifinals as Favorite. New York Times, 13 July. , B13.

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