How to format your references using the International Information and Library Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Information and Library Review. 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 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

Clark, J. S. (2010). Individuals and the variation needed for high species diversity in forest trees. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5969), 1129–1132.

A journal article with 2 authors

Butler, A., & Sandy, M. (2009). Mechanistic considerations of halogenating enzymes. Nature, 460(7257), 848–854.

A journal article with 3 authors

Qvarnström, A., Brommer, J. E., & Gustafsson, L. (2006). Testing the genetics underlying the co-evolution of mate choice and ornament in the wild. Nature, 441(7089), 84–86.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wang, Y., Li, L., Ma, C., Gao, C., Tao, F., & Xu, P. (2013). Engineering of cofactor regeneration enhances (2S,3S)-2,3-butanediol production from diacetyl. Scientific Reports, 3, 2643.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walkenbach, J. (2010). Excel® 2010 Power Programming with VBA. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Harmsen, F., Proper, E., Schalkwijk, F., Barjis, J., & Overbeek, S. (Eds.). (2010). Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation: Second Working Conference, PRET 2010, Delft, The Netherlands, November 11, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 69). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Joyner, D., & Kim, J.-L. (2011). The Riemann Hypothesis and Coding Theory. In J.-L. Kim (Ed.), Selected Unsolved Problems in Coding Theory (pp. 71–121). Birkhäuser.

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 International Information and Library Review.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, September 15). The FBI’s Director Says You Should Always Cover Your Webcam With Tape. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/fbi-director-says-you-should-always-cover-your-webcam-tape/

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. (2015). Motor Carrier Safety: Additional Research Standards and Truck Drivers’ Schedule Data Could Allow More Accurate Assessments of the Hours of Service Rule (GAO-15-641). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Toosi, F. (2017). Decision Analysis Techniques for Adult Learners: Application to Leadership [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Billard, M. (2010, October 21). Cozying Up To a Classic. New York Times, E6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Clark, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Butler & Sandy, 2009; Clark, 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Butler & Sandy, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Information and Library Review
ISSN (print)	1057-2317
Scope	Library and Information Sciences