How to format your references using the Research Involvement and Engagement citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research Involvement and Engagement. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Yan H. Materials science. Nucleic acid nanotechnology. Science. 2004;306:2048–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Raviv U, Klein J. Fluidity of bound hydration layers. Science. 2002;297:1540–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Charpinet S, Fontaine G, Brassard P. Seismic evidence for the loss of stellar angular momentum before the white-dwarf stage. Nature. 2009;461:501–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Xu K, Xu X, Fukao T, Canlas P, Maghirang-Rodriguez R, Heuer S, et al. Sub1A is an ethylene-response-factor-like gene that confers submergence tolerance to rice. Nature. 2006;442:705–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Braha A, Groza G. Moderne Abwassertechnik. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2006.

An edited book

1. Timilsina GR, Zilberman D, editors. The Impacts of Biofuels on the Economy, Environment, and Poverty: A Global Perspective. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wu Z, Hashimoto M, Guo B, Takahashi K. A Path Prediction Method for Human-Accompanying Mobile Robot Based on Neural Network. In: Zhang Y, Zhou Z-H, Zhang C, Li Y, editors. Intelligent Science and Intelligent Data Engineering: Second Sino-foreign-interchange Workshop, IScIDE 2011, Xi’an, China, October 23-25, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 35–42.

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 Research Involvement and Engagement.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Humans Killed Almost Three Million Whales During 20th Century [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/almost-three-million-whales-killed-during-twentieth-century/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Head Start: Increased Percentage of Teachers Nationwide Have Required Degrees, but Better Information on Classroom Teachers’ Qualifications Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Oct. Report No.: GAO-04-5.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Schewe EM. Re-establishing Connections: Listening to Women Psychology Students Talk about Recovery [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2016.

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

1. Valerian S. The Long-Running Man. New York Times. 2013 Nov 6;B14.

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	Research Involvement and Engagement
Abbreviation	Res. Involv. Engagem.
ISSN (online)	2056-7529
Scope

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