How to format your references using the International Journal of Population Data Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS). 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

Zuber MT. The crust and mantle of Mars. Nature 2001 Jul.;412:220–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forcada J, Hoffman JI. Climate change selects for heterozygosity in a declining fur seal population. Nature 2014 Jul.;511:462–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goldner A, Herold N, Huber M. Antarctic glaciation caused ocean circulation changes at the Eocene-Oligocene transition. Nature 2014 Jul.;511:574–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chavez FP, Ryan J, Lluch-Cota SE, Niquen C M. From anchovies to sardines and back: multidecadal change in the Pacific Ocean. Science 2003 Jan.;299:217–21.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sapienza AM. Managing Scientists. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

Gabryś-Barker D, Wojtaszek A, editors. Studying Second Language Acquisition from a Qualitative Perspective. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Michel RL. Tritium in the Hydrologic Cycle. In: Aggarwal PK, Gat JR, Froehlich KFO, editors. Isotopes in the Water Cycle: Past, Present and Future of a Developing Science. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005. p. 53–66.

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 Journal of Population Data Science.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Astronomers Don’t Know What Caused This Massive Burst Of X-rays In The Universe [Internet]. IFLScience 2017 Mar. [cited 2018 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-dont-know-what-caused-this-massive-burst-of-xrays-in-the-universe/

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. Commercial Space: FAA Should Examine How to Appropriately Regulate Space Support Vehicles. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ivy R. Regional Subsurface Investigation of the Uppermost Cretaceous of Northern Louisiana. 2017;

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

Otis J. Student Gains Confidence With Help From an ‘Angel.’ New York Times 2017 Jan.;A20.

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	International Journal of Population Data Science
ISSN (online)	2399-4908
Scope