How to format your references using the Innovative Infrastructure Solutions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Innovative Infrastructure Solutions. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Roberts JW (2006) Biochemistry. RNA polymerase, a scrunching machine. Science 314:1097–1098

A journal article with 2 authors

McMichael AJ, Jones EY (2010) Genetics. First-class control of HIV-1. Science 330:1488–1490

A journal article with 3 authors

Mathew-Fenn RS, Das R, Harbury PAB (2008) Remeasuring the double helix. Science 322:446–449

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bourlat SJ, Nielsen C, Lockyer AE, et al (2003) Xenoturbella is a deuterostome that eats molluscs. Nature 424:925–928

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tostmann K-H (2005) Korrosion. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Rauter AP, Vogel P, Queneau Y (2010) Carbohydrates in Sustainable Development II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Chan SC (2014) Image-Based Rendering. In: Ikeuchi K (ed) Computer Vision: A Reference Guide. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 392–399

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 Innovative Infrastructure Solutions.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Breast Cancer Risk Increases With Disrupted Sleep Cycles. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/breast-cancer-risk-increases-disrupted-sleep-cycles/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1985) Implementation of P.L. 94-142 as It Relates to Handicapped Delinquents in the District of Columbia. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pan S (2014) Cybersecurity testing and intrusion detection for cyber-physical power systems. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Poniewozik J (2017) A Drug Dealer’s Heart Turns Hard. New York Times C1

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	Innovative Infrastructure Solutions
Abbreviation	Innov. Infrastruct. Solut.
ISSN (print)	2364-4176
ISSN (online)	2364-4184
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