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

Koentges G. 2008 Evolution of anatomy and gene control. Nature 451, 658–663.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhoj VG, Chen ZJ. 2009 Ubiquitylation in innate and adaptive immunity. Nature 458, 430–437.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ryu WS, Berry RM, Berg HC. 2000 Torque-generating units of the flagellar motor of Escherichia coli have a high duty ratio. Nature 403, 444–447.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lalmi B, Girard JC, Pallecchi E, Silly M, David C, Latil S, Sirotti F, Ouerghi A. 2014 Flower-shaped domains and wrinkles in trilayer epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide. Sci. Rep. 4, 4066.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. 1995 Guidelines for Safe Process Operations and Maintenance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lewis A. 2007 Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax: From Novice to Professional. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Perfilieva I. 2015 A New Model of a Fuzzy Associative Memory. In Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making: 4th International Symposium, IUKM 2015, Nha Trang, Vietnam, October 15-17, 2015, Proceedings (eds V-N Huynh, M Inuiguchi, T Demoeux), pp. 32–42. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Davis J. 2017 No, This Survey Does Not Show That How Much Porn Men Watch Is Linked To Sexual Dysfunction. 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. 1986 [Question Concerning Protest Under Army IFB for Dependent School Transportation].

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Okafor-Dike LC. 2008 The effect of leadership on economic development: A case study of Nigeria. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Yablonsky L. 2010 A Cut Above. New York Times, 31 January. , ST3.

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

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